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