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BMS talks of Hind Swaraj now...

Immediately on the heels of the BJP discovering Hind Swaraj comes the following pronouncement by the BMS. Someone powerful in the sangh parivar must have recommended this to the others is very clear. National Executive Committee of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) that met in New Delhi on January 29 urged the UPA government to urgently call a labour tripartite meeting together with all stakeholders to discuss the impact of external financial crisis on India and its labour sector. “India should pursue an economic policy that is based on our ethos. Consumerist greed or desire-based economics has to be desisted. A paradigm shift is needed in developmental strategies, basics of which are found in Deendayal Upadhyaya’s Integral Human Philosophy, Gandhiji’s Hind Swaraj and Thengadiji’s Third Way,” the committee said in a resolution adopted at the meeting. BMS also decided to hold seminars on the issue all over the country by its state and industrial federations.   

BJP and Hind Swaraj!?

Looks like the Centenary of Hind Swaraj has finally become mainstream and politicians too have started talking of it - Here is an interesting note on BJP's President citing Hind Swaraj in the national executive meeting in Nagpur few days ago. BJP president Rajnath Singh dwelt at length on Gandhi’s seminal work Hind Swaraj for two days. He also mentioned one of the party’s founders, Deendayal Upadhyay, known for propounding the thesis of “Integral Humanism”, in the same breath, and argued that “India’s future must be centred around their vision of development”.