We are not rightists: Top RSS leader says ‘many of our ideas are like leftist ideas’

Top Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Dattatreya Hosabale has said many of the Hindutava fountainhead’s ideas are like leftist ideas.
Hosabale, who is the RSS general secretary said that Hindutva is neither Left nor Right and its essence is “integral humanism”.

Speaking at the launch of RSS leader Ram Madhav’s book, Hosabale said that cultural cohesion and cultural nationalism are essential for the longevity of a nation.

Any forcible division or unification of nations, he said, does not sustain.
He said RSS has never said in the Sangh training camps that it is rightist. The RSS leader said there is space for ideas of both sides, the Left and the Right, since these are “human experiences”.

Talking about the colonial reminiscent and its influence on the Indian governance set up, Hosabale said it is irrelevant but continues to persist in the present-day Indian system. He cited the recent comment by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana about the “Indianisation of our legal system”.