Extract: it is no aberration that Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee defended Mr Modi?s pogrom or Mr Advani sided with ?Sadhvi? Thakur and recommended Ms Kodnani?s induction into Mr Modi?s cabinet. Ultimately, they are all mutually linked via the RSS, and share the same project, that of Hindutva. This project has always been deeply suspicious of democracy and at best regards it as a means to power or an expedient tool. It bears recalling that the RSS, which was deeply influenced by European fascism, opposed universal adult franchise until the 1950s. It termed the first general election a ?precipitate dose of democracy? and ?a leap in the dark.? http://www.navhindtimes.com/story.php?story=2009021250
