The fight is not between BJP and Congress, but between hierarchy and equity: Sasikanth Senthil 

Lok Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu Sasikanth Senthil said that the country is currently witnessing an ideological fight and not an organisational fight, at an event held by Jagrutha Karnataka in Bengaluru.

Lok Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu Sasikanth Senthil said that the country is currently witnessing an ideological fight and not an organisational fight, at an event held by Jagrutha Karnataka in Bengaluru.

“It’s not right to see this fight as between BJP and Congress. It’s a fight between two mindsets or two ideologies. One ideology believes in hierarchy. The other believes in equity,” Senthil said. 

“Many people think the independence movement was to send the British out. But that was only a small reason. The larger fight was against inequity and hierarchy. You take any leader - Bhagat Singh, Subhash Chandra Bose, Gandhiji, Ambedkar – their methods might have been different, but their fight was against hierarchy,” he added.  

The event which focused on the theme “How to reshape politics to reclaim the Idea of India” was held by Jagrutha Karnataka as part of its “Back to Constitution” series earlier this week.  

Bringing up the issue of Caste Census, Senthil noted that people from SC, ST, OBC and MBC communities stood to benefit the most from it, but BJP, which claims to be the saviour of Hindus, did not support this.

Programmes like the National Education Policy introduced by the BJP government only help to bolster the caste system, he said, accusing the RSS and the BJP of trying to bring back the caste hierarchies that were demolished by the Constitution.

He further alleged that the RSS did not take part in the freedom movement not because they didn’t want the British to leave India, but because they feared the establishment of an equitable society following that.