Bharat Swabhiman Andolan

Bharat Swabhiman Andolan (“Self-respect Indian Movement”) is a national movement started by Ramdev which inspired Rajiv Dixit's swadeshi concept throughout India.^[1]

History

Bharat Swabhiman Andolan is a mass movement campaign launched by Baba Ramdev ^[2] to eradicate corruption from India. The Andolan promotes protest against corruption in every government sector, and claims that the nature of this corruption is that Indian officials illegally broker deals to allow foreign companies to enter every Indian social sector and hamper the indigenous system in every sphere. Government estimations show that nearly 84 crore (840 million) people in India, which is nearly 75% of the total population, are living with a capacity to spend only Rs. 20 (1 dollar ~ Rs. 62) in a day, and the Bharat Swavhiman Andolan claims that fighting government corruption is the first step to changing this state of poverty.

The organization aims to accomplish its goal by reviving forgotten parts of Indian culture among all Indians, and Ramdev says this would be the first step towards making India a superpower. Swadeshi Shiksha (education system based on Indian principles) and Swadeshi Chikitsa (medical system based on Indian principles) are two of the most important aims of this mission. Establishment of Hindi and all regional (Bhartiya-Indian) languages as the primary language in government-sponsored activities like education and the judiciary is part of the agenda of this movement. Ramdev draws attention to the fact that in terms of population Hindi is the second most spoken native language after the Chinese language and yet in its own country it gets secondary status to English. He also sees a problem in the fact that no modernized country in the world uses a foreign language for official purposes except India.

Goals

Main Goal of Movement is,

1. 100% voting
2. 100% nationalist thought
3. 100% boycott of foreign companies, adoption of ‘swadeshi
4. 100% unification of the people of the nation
5. 100% yoga-oriented nation

Vows

Five Vows of Bharat Swabhiman Andolan:

1. We will only vote for patriotic, honest, valiant, farsighted, and skillful people. We ourselves will vote 100% and also make others vote.
2. We will unite all patriotic, sincere, aware, sensitive, intelligent and honest people together 100% and uniting the powers of the nation will bring about a new freedom, new system and new change. We will make India the biggest superpower in the world.
3. We will 100% boycott foreign goods and adopt indigenous goods.
4. We will adopt nationalist thought 100%, and while in our personal lives we may observe Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Islam, etc religious traditions, in our public lives we will live like a true Indian – a true Bharatiya.
5. We will make the entire country 100% yoga-oriented and make the citizens inward-focused by making them healthy and arouse the feeling of self-pride in each one by removing the cheating, corruption, hopelessness, disbelief and self-languor arising because of self-confusion, and awaken India’s sleeping self-respect by building national character

References

External links

Official website