New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari has clearly said that "politics for development” is his "main” agenda and Hindutva comes second.
Gadkari told Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN’s show Devil’s Advocate that development was the BJP’s appeal and not religion.
“Politics for development is my main agenda--cultural nationalism is the important thing and cultural nationalism includes Hindutva,” he said in the interview, which will be telecast on CNN-IBN at 8.30 pm on Sunday.
Thapar asked Gadkari if he believed “cultural nationalism comes second” and his main focus is politics of development.
“Politics for development, yes. Because Hindutva is related to nationalism and nationalism is related to development of the country,” Gadkari replied.
The BJP chief claimed Hindutva had been wrongly understood and it was not divisive. “That is not the correct meaning of that. We don't want to politics on the basis of caste, religion, creed or language,” he said.
“The Supreme Court has defined Hindutava very nicely--it is a way of life. Whatever people understand about Hindutava is not the real meaning of it. It is a way of life.”
“A section of media has always interpreted the meaning of 'Hindutava' negatively, that it is against Muslims and minorities,” he claimed.
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