Ref: ‘Sanatan Dharma a soft target for Congress, its ally’ (Bold-talk: V Ramu Sarma). The growing trend of snide remarks on ‘Sanatan’ is becoming a political fashion for Congress and Samajwadi Party. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav have lost all propriety and logic in lampooning Hinduism, and Sanatan values that are deeply entrenched in the Hindu psyche is not only irresponsible but self-defeating; and even suicidal in political terms for both the parties.
Kharge’s comments in Mahakumbh 2025 are preposterous and childish when he commented that poverty and unemployment would be eradicated by taking the dip in the ‘Sangam’ and that faith should be confined within the four walls of one’s home. Mallikarjun Kharge must understand he has had the advantages as dalit to reach such a level – he must be thankful to democratic values promoted in the country, while one expects him to be loyal and eternally thankful to the country that has accorded the special status to the SC/ST communities at gross disadvantage to others; and Akhilesh Yadav calling the Kumbh gathering as ‘Chhapri Londe’ was absolutely disgusting and uncouth language to be used against such a sacred religious congregation which is sure to alienate, backfire and explode in the face of political parties that are feverishly engaged in anti-‘Sanatan’ analogy. Sadly, enough these political groups do not see ‘Sanatan’ and ‘Hinduism’ on the same scale owing to .