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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sevak (RSS) faces a predicament. It is seemingly omnipotent as never before in its history. Ironically, its voice has never been as feeble with its ideological progeny, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as it is today.
As journalist Dinesh Narayanan writes in his book, which is surprisingly dispassionate given the access the publicity-shy organisation gave him, the RSS leaders’ influence on the BJP government’s decision-making has diminished.
It is true that the RSS has accomplished much of its core agenda – Article 370 is scrapped, construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya has started and the criminalisation
