Stop claiming to be one in public, especially when debating on Hinduism. No one cares what happens in your private personal life. Especially when you have no intention of defending it or even knowing what it stands for.
Again, you don't get to dictate it, nobody can. In any case you won't find me fanatically promoting my religious identity. Btw, forcing others to follow my religious preferences is not 'defending' my religion, it is 'intolerance'.
Because it suits you.
If the state won't protect, it has not choice. In Mahabharata the king who was supposed to dispense justice did not do it. His name was Didhrasthra, the blind king. Lord Krisha told Arjuna to attack and kill them all.
If the blind politicians of today do not protect Dharma, we have no choice but to follow lord Krishna's teaching.
End of the day to suffer Adharma in silence is more sinful than to wage a war in the defence of Dharma.
Some other groups follow the same principals against their state policies, Taliban/TTP, Jamatis, Boko Haram, etc.
And don't misinterpret Lord Krishna's teachings. VHP and Bajrangi goons are not the best examples of Hindus.
Any stats to support this?
BJP got clear majority with 31% votes.
Congress could not even secure Opposition Leader's post with 20% votes.
Now, from that 31% votes deduct :
1. Non-Hindutva Hindu votes.
2. Other minority votes.
3. Modi charishma votes.
4. 'Fcuk Congress' votes.
5. 'Save India from Rahul' votes.
What BJP will be left with won't secure them anything more than what they got for most part of the history of Indian parliament. BJP came to power twice in its entire history, and both the time they were assisted by the 1. spectacular failure of the ruling government, 2. leadership crisis in the opposition camp, and 3. personal charisma of couple of BJP leaders, Vajpayeeji and Narendra Modi. RSS never own any election for BJP, so they should stop riding on the back of BJP as free-loaders. If RSS wants to dictate terms for the government, they should contest the election and win it on their own first instead of claiming others victory as theirs.
True. There is no way to be 'Not a Hindu'. Beef eaters are also Hindu. Of course they will be A class hypocrites (because gau mata mantras are central to any yagna or many pujas) but then so am I(for other reasons).
Again, you are trying to decide who are true Hindus and who are not. You don't get to do that in Hinduism. In many parts of India a puja of shakti won't be complete without sacrifice of a buffalo or goat and distributing its meat as prasad, while some Hindus in other parts of the country are vegetarians. Further, a cow might get certain importance in Hinduism, but bulls, bullocks and buffaloes don't have such privileges, gau pitas are not so lucky, they are not even 'gau's, only females of their species get that status. So why ban the slaughter of bulls and bullocks?
1. Who said I belong to the Sangh? Sangh by the way believes in banning cow slaughter.
2. Nope. It is not fixed. It is by birth. Then there is falling out of it. Sure as of now no one decides it, but we are moving towards a society where cow eating will be a crime. Not much different, is it?
3. I represent the larger group of Hindus who support cow ban. You are representative of a very tiny minority of Hindus who support beef eating.
Yes, we are well aware of it, but then everything in Congress rule was corrupt. With police and even BSF connivance it was everything goes rule. We are here to change it.
1. Sangh is not the authority of Hinduism.
2. By birth means it is fixed, you don't get to change your caste at whims.
3. With 31% of the votes which includes votes of non-Hindutvas and non-Hindus, you are certainly not the 'larger group of Hindus'.
4. Just because I don't eat beef, I don't get the right to prevent others from eating it.
On the contrary. The core support has been from the Hindu vote bank that got consolidated this time. BJP has no choice but to satisfy at least some of the pro Hindu ideas in their manifesto.
BJP might have big numbers today, but the ground is slippery, a mere 4%-5% change of votes can change fortunes drastically.
The beef issue itself can be put on a referendum - in the poorest of villages included. I will gladly accept the verdict and shall forever keep my calm.
Why referendum? You put 'right to female foeticide' on a referendum and you might end up getting an affirmative result, you never know. Justice and rule of law is not about satisfying only the majority group's demands. I say, let RSS contest the election on its own and win it, I will accept the verdict, gladly or otherwise.
Maharashtra is pretty happy with the cow ban. Congress is as good as dead. So who is going to take on BJP? Your Mamata Banerjee? So not winning elections in WB and Kerala will kill BJP?
Was it the last & final election in Maharashtra?