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Shekhar Gupta: The ghost of Swadeshinomics

RSS's economic philosophy laid out by Mohan Bhagwat runs contrary to Modi government's recent policies. And it is unlikely to prevail

Illustration: Binay Sinha
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Shekhar Gupta
The Sarsanghchalak, as the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) calls its chief, makes his equivalent of the State of the Union address on Dussehra at the organisation’s headquarters in Nagpur. It always makes some news, but more so now that the BJP is in power, in its second term, with a bigger majority than in the first. Also, when this government is delivering what are considered the RSS’s “core concerns”: Scrapping of Article 370 in Kashmir, the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), and the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

The chief for a decade now, Mohan Bhagwat made more news than usual this
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