Washington, Jul 10 (PTI) Observing that cultural nationalists are not only a dominant social force, but also a dominant political force in the country today, a senior RSS leader told an international gathering of conservatives on Tuesday that the left liberals in India have been cornered from all sides and are in deep distress. "After we secured the absolute political mandate 10 years ago, we used this conservative consensus to take back everything that the Nehruvian liberals took away from us several decades ago," Ram Madhav said in his address to the National Conservatism conference being held here in the American capital. "We ended socialist protectionism and promoted a free-market economy.
Of course, in the last 20 years, I am not just saying 10 years. From the 11th position a decade ago, today, India is catapulted into the fifth or fourth-largest economy in the world. "We reclaimed our universities and academic bodies.
We took back the media space. And we recently launched a new education policy to rebuild our academic curriculum to teach conservative values to our future generations, something that most of you are worried about in your countries," Madhav said at the conference that has attracted conservatives from across the world. "Friends, it is no longer fashionable to call oneself a liberal or a socialist or a secular in India anymore.
It is no longer fashionable...
. (In India today,) it is cool to be a Hindu. It is cool to be a Buddhist.
It is cool to be a Jain. It.