Tanika Sarkar's recent 'Hindu Nationalism in India' stresses that it is the medium of the organisational network not the message of Hindutva alone that accounts for its hegemony.
It is mainly the BJP’s propaganda that fuels its perception of invincibility. For a party with a majority of around 30 MPs in the Lok Sabha, there is no inevitability of success.
Exploiting the mistakes of the Congress, the Hindu nationalists accused it of playing vote bank politics. This opened up the political space for the advance of Hindu nationalism.
Though the resistance is growing and evolving on the ideological plane, it currrently lacks the ability to see through the designs of the RSS-BJP – leave alone defeat it.