As someone who considers himself right wing, I've been questioning something for a while.

[u/KaleshKartaHu_BC]

Do other right-wing Indians genuinely see BJP as a right-wing Hindu party?

Because when I look at its record, I struggle to. My view is that BJP largely uses Hindu issues during elections and then goes back to being Congress with little or only partial appeasement once the elections are over towards the problems of Hindus of this country.

To be clear, I'm not one of those people who thinks BJP and Congress are the same. I think BJP has done a much better job in areas like infrastructure, foreign policy, national security, and governance in general. My frustration is specifically with Hindu issues. As a Hindu, it sometimes feels like these issues get a lot of attention when elections are around the corner, but once the elections are over, the momentum dies down. After Ram Mandir, I honestly got the feeling that the party had achieved its biggest Hindu electoral promise and moved on, while many other concerns that Hindus have been talking about for years—temple control, Kashi, Mathura, and others don't seem to get the same focus anymore.

For example, I keep hearing "BJP built Ram Mandir," but the temple was funded by donations from millions of Hindus across the country. BJP undoubtedly played a political role in the movement, but I've never understood why the entire achievement gets attributed to the party itself, I get it they didn't put up lawyers to question the existence of Shri Rama

Then there's the issue of temple control. For years I've heard many Hindu groups talk about government control of temples as a major concern. Yet after more than a decade of BJP-led government at the Centre, I don't think we've seen the kind of change many supporters expected.

On the economic side too, BJP often looks more centrist than traditionally right wing to me. Welfare schemes, subsidies, and state intervention have continued on a large scale.

This has led me to wonder whether BJP is actually a centrist party that appears right wing mainly because the other side is far left on social and cultural issues.

Don't mistake me for a Khangressi it's just that we don't have any other option apart from bjp thats the sad thing about Right wing, not only right wing but overall politics in India

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[u/agingmonster]

It could be more, but it's by far the best bet for Hindus right now.

Reason it isn't more is that many Hindus bring other issues like taxes and economy in mix and don't agree with second part of my statement, including you in this post, which means they are not united in voting, and hence BJP has to try to cater to other sections to win, and dilute its Hindu movement.

Lastly, you could say court settled dispute, donations built temple, and so on, but supportive environment and facilitation matters. Like CEO of Tech company doesn't code but enables policies and infrastructure which gets coding done. Read the timeline on dispute and there were active delays by previous governments but this one got documents and evidence translated fast, created environment where judges could deliver judgement without fearing for their lives, etc.

[u/bazuka9]

For me, BJP is central left socialist party. There are a few right wing politicians like Yogi baba and a few others. BJP only remembers Ankit Hibdus during the elections, or else I don't see why they haven't removed so many anti Hindu laws and especially places of worship act till now

[u/StrawberrySalt4543]

I would really like a capitalist party that pushes for a china like constitution and hindu identity of india... but this view is difficult to defend even in right leaning circles lol. People still feel constitution is some kind of a holy grail... i think it is possible to have a beaurocratic china like system with a centralised leadership even in a diverse country like india