New Delhi: Questioning Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s failure to keep up the promises they made, Shankaracharya Swaroopanand Saraswati of Dwarka Peeth said they increased communal tensions in the country.
Shankaracharya condemning the hypocrisy of BJP in connection with cow slaughter said its party leaders themselves export beef. He said that BJP party did not keep any promises such as employment to youth, 15 lakh in the accounts of poor, removal of Article 370 in Kashmir as well as Ram temple in Ayodhya. BJP’s leaders including PM Modi have failed to answer these questions, he added.
Shankaracharya told India Today, both BJP, as well as RSS, caused the biggest damage to Hinduism in the recent years. He also claimed that RSS chief does not know anything about Hinduism. “Bhagwat says that Hindu marriage is a contract, whereas Hindu marriages are solemnized for life. Bhagwat says anyone who is born in India is Hindu, then what would someone who was born in England or America from Hindu parents be,” he asked.
He also spoken about Asaram, saying there is no place of such godman in Hinduism. “Not only Asaram but his son Narain Swami should also be given the strictest punishment. There is no place for such self-styled godmen in Hinduism,” he said.
Shankaracharya also commented on high taxes on the common man and said the government should first control its own expenses and cut down their own salaries before adding taxes on the public.