Can the BJP survive and grow without the Sangh Parivar? For a party which continues to grapple with the existential dilemma despite being in national politics for over three decades, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi provides the answer. There’s a growing realisation in the BJP that the Sangh Parivar — the RSS, its loose affiliates and Hindutva groups of several shades, from the rabid to the restrained, to which the party traces its ideological roots — has been an impediment to the political and organisational growth of the BJP.