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TopicRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Topic: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Half of Nitin Nabin’s team has RSS link. Sangh imprint in BJP top ranks has shrunk since Shah-era peak

ThePrint analysis of BJP national office-bearer teams over last 20 yrs shows trend is in sync with Nadda's 2024 remark that BJP needed RSS in past, but is competent now to run its affairs.

‘Any Hindu who sees no place for Muslims in Bharat is not a Hindu’—Bhagwat at US event

The RSS chief laments politics has largely become ‘a game of self-interest’. ‘Wherever there is me and mine, there is no solution; 'We' and 'ours' is the only solution’. 

In RS, Jairam Ramesh submits ex-RSS chief’s letters to ‘authenticate’ Sangh’s ‘support’ for Emergency

Day after BJP MPs challenged him to validate his claim that RSS supported Emergency, Ramesh submits 3 letters wriiten by Balasaheb Deoras—2 to Indira Gandhi & 1 to Acharya Vinoba Bhave.

Digvijaya backs Priyank Kharge call for RSS funding disclosure, says he’d written to Bhagwat, Nirmala too

The senior Congress leader says he has been asking the same questions of the RSS for a long time. ‘In a democracy, no institution can be above questions and accountability.’

What RSS appointees missing in BJP organisational setup means for the party in crucial states

There are 7 states including Maharashtra & MP where BJP is functioning without a full-term general secretary (organisation), a position taken by those that Sangh deputes.

Pakistan welcomes ‘positive’ call by RSS’s Hosabale for dialogue between Delhi & Islamabad

Earlier this week, the RSS general secretary had said India should keep channels of communication open with Pakistan without compromising on ‘security, self-respect’.

Is govt being egged on by a hyperpower, Congress asks after RSS’s Hosabale backs dialogue with Pakistan

Cong linked Hosabale’s remark to his recent US visit. 'It appears the US trip of Shri Hosabale... has impacted him as well as RSS,’ says Jairam Ramesh. 

RSS isn’t Indian version of Ku Klux Klan, Hindus have nothing to apologise for—Dattatreya Hosabale in DC

‘PM Narendra Modi has been an active volunteer of RSS...he is proud of it and we are proud of him,’ Dattatreya Hosabale said at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC.

RSS flags fake Bhagwat-Modi letter, AI-generated content going viral ahead of polls

The RSS has complained to the police about viral deepfake videos and AI-generated letters that have gone viral before the assembly elections, including in Assam.

Infiltration is not a communal issue and ‘love jihad’ is a reality, a crime—RSS’s Sunil Ambekar

Expressing concern over 'infiltration from Bangladesh', RSS national publicity in-charge Sunil Ambekar tells ThePrint in an exclusive interview ahead of Bengal polls that 'it's a very serious threat'.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.