... it's because India isn't really that much different than the United States -> https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/bjp-and-rss-relationship-is-not-going-to-change-in-wake-of-poll-results-12739984.html
The RSS prefers to stay away from the
day-to-day political affairs and it is too busy with its plans to expand
its base as it completes 100 years in 2025. Some of the RSS workers
are loaned out to the BJP as organisational secretaries and joint
organisational secretaries at the state and the national level. These
workers are generally full-time workers and known as ‘Pracharak’.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself was an RSS Pracharak and he has
also held the post of organisational secretary in the BJP.
There
has been no clash of interests or tussle for power between the BJP and
the RSS as they work in different spheres. The RSS leadership perfectly
understands that politics has its own compulsions and the BJP is free to
follow these compulsions. If anything has to be conveyed to the BJP
leadership, that is done through the organisational secretaries and
their deputies.
The
RSS neither interferes in the governance or administration nor in the
political activities of the BJP. It plays the role of an ideological
mentor and would continue to do so. As a large number of BJP
functionaries and political executives within the state and national
level BJP and BJP-led governments have come from the RSS to the party,
so the informal consultations between the mentor and the mentee are done
regularly.
Since
the days of the Bharatiya JanaSangh (BJS), the RSS’ relationship with
politics has evolved on similar lines. When BJS, the predecessor of the
BJP was formed in 1951, the RSS had loaned out some of its ‘Pracharak’
to the BJS. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who later became Prime Minister was
one of them. Similarly, Narendra Modi was loaned out to the BJP in 1980s
by the RSS and he also became the Prime Minister.
So,
there is no dichotomy between Modi and the RSS. No one has any ambition
to dominate the other because Modi is an intrinsic part of Sangh. When
he visited the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, he fondly remembered Ek Nath
Ranade who built this memorial. Ranade was also a pracharak and
a former general secretary of the RSS. It was during Modi’s tenure as
Prime Minister that another RSS Pracharak Nanaji Deshmukh was given
Bharat Ratna for his stellar work in the field of rural reconstruction
and social reforms. Deendayal Upadhyay, who founded the philosophy of
‘Integral Humanism’ that became the official ideology of the BJP was
also an RSS pracharak. On innumerable occasions the BJP leadership and
Prime Minister Modi himself has paid glowing tributes to Upadhyay.
