Divine Right of Intervention at Baroda

Baroda & its prestigious Faculty of Fine Arts at Sayaji University have been in the news the past one week. In yesterday's NDTV debate on 'We The People' , the usual culprits were there, with Chandan Mitra batting for the BJP. In this context, I remembered some similar incident a few months back, My thoughts then had been pushed away by other more pressing matters. but it is time to think again...

Lal Krishna Advani, the BJP President, claimed recently that his party has a ‘Divine Right’
to represent Hindus. This set me thinking about this exclusivity, and I wondered why the Good Lord above chose to grant it , if indeed he did, to these guys - The goons who call themselves the Sangha Parivaar.

Soon, my search was rewarded with the following passage:

Once self-supported by ‘conscience’, once embarked upon a career of manifest usefulness, the true ‘Hindutva’ soldier never yields. Neither public nor private influences produce the slightest effect on us, when we have once got our mission. Taxation may be the consequence, riots may ensue and even wars may be fought; but we go on with our work, irrespective of every human consideration which moves the world outside us.

We are above reason, we are beyond ridicule; we see with nobody’s eyes, we hear with nobody’s ears, we feel with nobody’s hearts, but our own. Glorious, glorious privilege!
And how is it earned? Ah, my friends, you may spare yourselves that useless inquiry!
We are the only people who can earn it – for we are the only people who are always right.
UNQUOTE.

Unfortunately, I do not know what is the percentage of the popular mandate (Vote Share) that the ‘Hindutva’ forces, BJP & Shiv Sena, won between themselves in the last Lok Sabha elections
In 2004. It certainly was not more than 25%. If 80% of Indians are Hindus then there is a serious mismatch here in the numbers.

HOW THE HELL DO THESE GUYS CLAIM TO REPRESENT ALL HINDUS?

I am more than ever convinced that all organised religion ought to be banned.