Only Hindu society can be spiritual, BJP only political option: MEA e-book

Book on Deendayal Upadhyaya published by external affairs ministry says BJP is only political alternative in the country, Hindu thought is Bhartiya thought, and only Hindu society can be spiritual

On September 22, 2017, a few days before the birth anniversary of RSS ideologue and Bharatiya Jan Sangh founder Deendayal Upadhyaya, the Ministry of External Affairs uploaded an e-book with the title Integral Humanism on the home page of its official website.

Apart from being shoddily written and edited, the e-book – which external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj describes as the product of the “hard work of MEA officials” – falsifies independent India’s early political history and shockingly describes the Bharatiya Janata Party as the only political alternative for the country.

Sample this strange text:

“When India’s struggle for freedom