She said "we are now officially (though not constitutionally) living in Hindu/Hindutva Rashtra".
Have no delusions, those who live in dread of a militaristic, supremacist, Hindutva nation; it's already here, trampling citizens from marginalised communities like Dalits, tribals, minorities, and the poor who face the jackboot of aggressive and militant religious bigotry; apart from assault on citizens who stand up for the Constitution, human rights and civil rights activists, free thinking doctrinaires, and all those who challenge an ultra nationalist state.
Even as the Modi government is unmistakably exposing its true intention, one must know that the dream of declaring India a Hindu nation will entail changes to the basic structure of the Constitution. The current party position in Parliament doesn't allow the required amendments.
RSS ideologues have made no secret of their desire to bring about the "required changes" to the Constitution. Last year, a prominent RSS ideologue and chairman of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) Ram Bahadur Rai spoke on the need to amend the Constitution.
In an interview to Outlook magazine, Rai said that the 16th Lok Sabha should be converted into a Constituent Assembly.
He said the Constitution had outlived its utility and is not suited to the times we live in. The Constitution, he said, is a "new testament of our slavery."
In his view, the Constituent Assembly, which drafted the Constitution, was unrepresentative.
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