Sources have stated that under Prime Minister Modi, the BJP has a sizeable parliamentary majority on its own that it had never enjoyed before it is, therefore, not obliged to dilute its agenda to accommodate less Hindutva-minded coalition partners, since it does not need any of them to make up its majority. Moreover for the first time, Indian democracy finds itself facing the reality of its top three constitutional positions president, vice president and prime minister all being held by RSS members of the same ideological disposition.
Meanwhile is difficult to escape the conclusion that this marks a significant step towards the Hindutva project of transforming India into a Hindu state, or at least a state with a distinctively Hindu identity.
Moreover the environmentalists may well approve, but the key questions
remains whether a Hindutva modified Constitution, assuming that it ever comes
about, will retain the core principle of independent India, that all adult
Indians are deemed equal, irrespective of religion.
