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Omissions and commissions of the RSS led Sangh Parivar...and the letters of Sardar Patel

Amaresh Misra
25 January 2013, 09:24 PM IST

(Concluding Part of `Two Communalisms and the Season of Hate’)

The remarks made by Sushil Kumar Shinde: It is symptomatic that the continuing season of hate would encapsulate the almost paranoid RSS-BJP-Sangh Parivar reaction to the charge that their cadres—and maybe leaders—are involved in terror activities. Security forces like the NIA have unearthed evidence that arms training camps—run by BJP-RSS cadres/leaders—exist in various parts of India

RK Singh, the current home secretary of the government of India—who has on several past occasions also revealed the names of suspected IM individuals involved in terror acts—and therefore cannot be accused of any bias—has given out a list of 10 names with details about the rank and position in the RSS. This is the list issued officially by the government of India (so please don’t accuse me of any pro-Muslim prejudice):
  • Sunil Joshi (believed to be dead), involved in the Samjhauta Express and Ajmer Sharif Dargah blasts, worked for the RSS in Dewas and Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, till 2003.  
  • Sandeep Dange, wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as an accused in the Samjhauta Express, Ajmer Sharif Dargah and Mecca Masjid blasts in Hyderabad, worked as a RSS `Pracharak’.     
  • Lokesh Sharma, in jail for involvement in the Samjhauta Express and Mecca Masjid blasts worked as the RSS Nagar Karyavahak (city functionary) in Deogarh. 
  • Rajender Chaudhary alias Samunder, also in jail for involvement in the Samjhauta Express and Mecca Masjid blasts, worked as a RSS ‘Varg Vistarak’ (an important propagandist position).
  •  Kamal Chouhan, in jail for involvement in the Samjhauta Express and Mecca Masjid blasts, worked also as a RSS ‘Varg Vistarak’.
  • Ramji Kalsangra, wanted by the NIA for the Samjhauta Express and Mecca Masjid blasts, worked as a RSS associate.
  • Mukesh Vasani, arrested for his involvement in the Ajmer Sharif Dargah blasts, worked as a Godhra based RSS activist.
  •  Devendra Gupta, in jail for involvement in the Mecca Masjid blasts, worked as a RSS `Pracharak in Mhow and Indore, Madhya Pradesh.  
  •  Chardrashekhar Leve, arrested for involvement in Mecca Masjid blasts, worked as a RSS activist in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
  • Swami Aseemanand, in jail as the main conspirator in the Samjhauta Express, Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Sharif Dargah blasts, worked for Vanvasi Kalyan Parishad, a RSS wing, in Dang, Gujarat, till 2007.
Double Standards

Till now, Muslim organizations have been accused of being in a state of denial as far the involvement of IM operatives in terror acts are concerned. Now—only in the interests of fair play, justice and truth—will the same Hindutva-right-wing forces act graciously enough and admit that terrorism is not restricted to Muslims alone and the RSS ideology might have produced terrorists also?

It is important that nationalist Deobandis issued a fatwa deeming terrorism untenable as per the tenets of Islam. The BJP-RSS has not even come clean on dissociating themselves from these 10 names.

On January 24, 2013, when Arnab Goswami made a specific query about the list of 10 issued by the Home Ministry during a Newshour debate on Times Now, Rajnath Singh, the BJP President, evaded the question in a blatant manner.

The Nanded Blast and the opening of a Pandora’s Box

Back in 2006, a blast ripped apart the RSS office at Nanded, Maharashtra. It turned out that RSS/Bajrang Dal cadres were making bombs that exploded due to mishandling.   Along with Digvijaya Singh, Mahesh Bhatt and Teesta Setelvad, several other secular personalities had then raised the issue that Indian security forces need to look at this other face of terror as well.

It was the late Hemant Karkare who exposed Hindutva terrorism when while investigating the 2008 Malegaon blasts—in which several Muslim youths had already been arrested—he came upon evidence that pointed towards RSS elements like Saadhvi Pragya and Dayanand Pandey. Karkare ultimately discovered the hand of Raj Kumar Purohit, a serving colonel of the Indian army, in the affair.

Apparently, RSS affiliated individuals are   involved in the 2006 Malegaon blasts as well.  According to the NIA, RSS members underwent training in arms in a terrorist camp at Bagli—near Indore—in  January 2006

If individuals caught by Hemant Karkare were not RSS affiliates, why did LK Advani—along with Rajnath Singh—the current BJP President—went to see Saadhvi Pragya in jail in 2008? Later, they met the then President of India on the issue.

Ideologically, the home minister and senior Congress leaders like Digvijaya Singh are entirely justified in claiming that BJP-RSS members and leaders have direct terror links.  Senior RSS leaders like Indresh Kumar have been quizzed and the NIA and other security forces are collecting more data in this regard.

 RSS: The Long History

The fact that RSS has indulged in violence in the past, was brought to light first during investigations in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Right wingers often accuse Congress leaders like Jawahar Lal Nehru for dragging in the RSS—they also say that Godse acted alone. BJP-RSS followers often pit Nehru against Patel. India’s first home minister is portrayed as someone close to the Hindutva ideology.

Patel’s letters blaming RSS and Hindu Mahasabha for Gandhi’s assassination

On August 18, 1948, in a letter addressed to Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, a Hindutva leader of national stature, who formed the Bhartiya Jan Sangh (BJS), a political forerunner to the BJP, Sardar Patel wrote: "As regards the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha, the case relating to Gandhiji's murder is sub-judice and I should not like to say anything about the participation of the two organisations, but our reports do confirm that as a result of the activities of these two bodies, particularly the former, an atmosphere was created in the country in which such a ghastly tragedy became possible. There is no doubt in my mind the extreme section of the Hindu Mahasbha was involved in this conspiracy. The activities of the RSS constituted a clear threat to the existence of the government and the state."

18.7.48 Vallabhbhai Patel (From the letter addressed to Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. Sardar Patel's correspondence; Vol. VI, p. 323, Navjivan-1973)

Dated September 11, 1948, Patel had this to say to Golwalkar, the then RSS Chief, in a letter:

"The speeches of the Sangh leaders are poisonous. It is as a result of this venom that Mahatma Gandhi has been assassinated. The followers of the Sangh have celebrated Gandhiji's assassination by distributing sweets."

(R.S.S. Kaal, Aaj, Udyaa" 1983, Pub. RSS, p.71) These letters present a stinging indictment of RSS and the politics spawned by its ideology.

Revelations by Rajeshwar Dayal, UP’s First home secretary

In 1998, Orient Longman published `A Life of Our Times: Memoirs of Rajeshwar Dayal, ICS’; on page 77, Dayal recounts an explosive episode that occurred during his reign as the first home secretary of present-day Uttar Pradesh:

“At a cocktail party, in early 1946, the Chief Secretary told me, almost casually that I would be the next Home Secretary of the UP I happened to be the first Indian officer named to the post which had hitherto apparently been reserved for British officers”.

Dayal goes onto write: “I must record an episode of a very grave nature. When communal tension was still at fever pitch, the Deputy Inspector General of Police Western Range a very seasoned and capable officer, B.B.L. Jaitley arrived at my house in secrecy. He was accompanied by two of his officers who brought with them two large steel trunks securely locked. When the trunks were opened, they revealed incontrovertible evidence of a dastardly conspiracy to create a communal holocaust throughout the western districts of the province”.

Dayal was shocked to discover that “the trunks were crammed with blueprints of great accuracy and professionalism of every town and village of that vast area prominently marking out the Muslim localities and habitations. There were also detailed instructions regarding access to the various locations, and other matters which amply revealed their sinister purport”.

Apparently, BBL Jaitley—the then DIG Police Western Range—had recovered the trunks from a raid on a RSS office. An alarmed Rajeshwar Dayal took the trunks straight to Govind Ballabh Pant, the then chief minister of present-day Uttar Pradesh. There, “in a closed room, Jaitley gave a full report of his discovery backed by all the evidence contained in the steel trunks”.

Soon, “timely raids conducted on the premises of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh)... brought the massive conspiracy to light. The whole plot had been concerted under the direction and supervision of the Supremo of the organisation himself”.

Who was this Supremo? Dayal minces no words: “Both Jaitley and myself pressed for the immediate arrest of the prime accused Shri Golwalkar, who was still in the area”.

On page 94 of his book, Dayal makes the necessary connection between the activities of Golwalkar led RSS and Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination:

“...came 30th January 1948 when the Mahatma, the supreme apostle of peace fell to a bullet..."  

Quoting Dayal in an Asian Age column written on September 21, 2003, Akhilesh Mittal, the now deceased veteran journalist concluded:

These maps could have originated only in the British Surveyor General's office. The British administration was known for the passionate zeal with which they guarded maps. That these were made available to the RSS is evidence of the Anglo-RSS link ”.

Isn’t it natural for such an organization to unleash another round of hate and terror? Read the charge-sheet of Saadhvi Pragya and Raj Kumar Purohit. It clearly states the objective behind conducting blasts in Malegaon, Mecca Masjid and Samjhauta Express was long-term: to suspend India’s constitution and declare a fascist Hindu Rashtra in the near future.

Check out this Mumbai Mirror link it showcases a telephonic conversation Raj Kumar Purohit conducted with an accomplice in which Purohit says that he has contacted Israel and Nepal’s King Gyanendra for his anti-India activities, aimed at destroying the Indian constitution.

RSS’ Anti-Democratic Character

RSS opposed the republican and democratic character of the Indian constitution. BJP had no problem in seeking an opportunistic alliance with the BSP in the 1990s. But in the 1940s, Golwalkar objected to the constitution written by Babasaheb Ambedkar, a Dalit, on the incredible ground that it did not include the strictures of the blatantly anti-women, anti-Dalit, anti-OBC Manusmriti.

In an article that appeared on page 3 of the 23rd November, 1949 issue of Organiser, the RSS mouthpiece, Golwalkar wrote:

 “In our constitution there is no mention of the unique constitutional developments in ancient Bharat. Manu's laws were written long before Lycurgus of Sparta or Solon of Persia. To this day laws as enunciated in the Manusmriti excite the admiration of the world and elicit spontaneous obedience and conformity. But to our constitutional pundits that means nothing”.  

Can anything be more astonishing than this? The very purpose of the Indian freedom movement and the Constitution of free India were to empower the weak and effect social change—and here Golwalkar is bemoaning about why the Indian constitution is not based on the laws of Manusmriti, that in his own words, “elicit spontaneous obedience and conformity”!

That is the reason why the RSS did not produce a single—repeat single—freedom fighter from its ranks.  There is no recorded presence of RSS workers in the Non-Cooperation movement (1920-1922), the Civil Disobedience movement (1930-1934) or the Quit India movement (1942). Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and other  freedom fighters who picked up the gun—as well as Subhash Chandra Bose—remained critical of the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha for playing the British game of trying to divide India’s freedom movement along communal lines.

If India has to develop into a 21st Century superpower, right wing forces practicing terrorism will have to be thrown out; the attempt by Hindutva forces to suspend the Indian constitution and destroy India cannot be tolerated.

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raghukash (India) says:
January 29,2013 at 12:17 PM IST 2 Followers
Silver : 366

May I know why my comments are deleted. Is it bcoz it does not agree the authors view. Does T O I censor any view which points at the govt. in power?


S Aggarwal (faridabad) says:
January 29,2013 at 11:19 AM IST


Mr mishra, read the history of Sikhs and you will know how much injustice was done by your dear Islamic rulers. people were cut to pieces. When appx 8 crore Hindus were killed by some people, You can't raise such issues. Anyway, RSS people do not want to waste time in unproductive activities like writing shit articles. I have better things to do with my time. I would like to devote time for my pet topics like arranging funds for education of children and micro enterprises. Your article has only given me inspiration to increase my efforts by minimum 4 times on positive side. Pl continue with your compaign and go on describing as fascists, murderers and terrorists and traitors.


mm (NY) says:
January 29,2013 at 03:14 AM IST


Amaresh bhai, You are one gutsy patriot Indian who believe in the secular constitution as it stands today! I salute you and folks like you to hold high the esteem of Modern India of the vision of Gandhi, Nehru and Abul Kalam and B R Ambedkar. Patel was at most dubious in that he had sympathies for RSS - even after they killed Gandhiji. If it were NOT for Patel, RSS would have been banned and they could not have created the nuisance they have. India would be a much more progressive country now than it is today. Many thanks for highlighting the much needed historical facts and neccessity to remove the fascist RSS from Indian society. Thank you, MM



Krishna Pradyumna (Hyderabad) says:
January 29,2013 at 01:12 AM IST 20 Followers


Such a paid article.. How come u forget to mention all the good deeds done by RSS. When sikhs are being butchered when a big tree fell, RSS came forward and helped them. When muslims are killing Hindus in old city(hyderabad) in 1995 period, it was RSS who made living possible for Hindus there. Many kashmiri pandits were killed by muslims, but this govt didnt do anything to help them, a lot of bangladeshi migrants come and kill in eastern India, still congress supports them for minority votes. U didnt find anything wrong with all this, but all u have is letters from Patel and NIA and tehelka?? For ur information, tehelka is run by congress. They got tax exemption and they write all stupid stuff against BJP. And NIA is also run by congress. Proof?? Sabarmati train blasts. According to US investigations, they r done by Al-queda. But our govt made it look like its done by RSS. Anything for votes. And i say i believe in American Investigation agency, then our agency.



zameer (India) says:
January 27,2013 at 10:54 PM IST
You mean 9/11 already occurred in India in 1948 with the assassination of father of the nation. All the deadliest terrorists are Hindus trained at RSS and BJP camps. You wrote page full of terror activities but you failed to include punishment for the terrorists, dismantle the terrorist training camp and did not recommended to ban RSS and BJP. In BJP dictionary patriotism means terrorism and mainstream means promote terrorism in the name of religion.
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Amaresh Misra (Delhi) says:
January 28,2013 at 12:08 AM IST
As I write this comment, the NIA is working at arresting top RSS leaders. First, a top RSS leader will be put behind bars. Then he will reveal the names of others and terrorist camps. Then we dismantle the camps. After that, we ban the RSS. All this while, we constantly educate the people of India about the terrorist history of RSS, how it is anti-Dalit, and anti-OBC--and ultimately anti-Sanatan Dharma and anti-Hindu--in its very foundation. How RSS cannot be redeemed. How cultural nationalism is another name for fascism. And how fascism has ruined nations wherever parties affiliated to the ideology have come to power.
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kaamra (Dehli) says:
January 28,2013 at 10:31 AM IST
Amrish,Have you heard the name of Shekh chilli ? BJP is going to be the ruling party ,most probably headed by Narinder Modi,who is only intrested in development.people will forget communalism of type you are propogating.Some time i feel ,you might be working for saffron Org.,the more you talk to hate hindus,the faster R SS will rise
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Amaresh Misra (Delhi) says:
January 28,2013 at 12:28 PM IST
Dil behlane ke liye khyal achcha hai...Mirza Ghalib
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rajan (india) says:
January 28,2013 at 02:00 PM IST
These ten goons will enjoy in the same way as the babri demolishers and Gujarat massaccarer are enjoying. Justice delay is justice denied.
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Amaresh Misra (Delhi) says:
January 28,2013 at 09:55 PM IST
You are right in saying that justice delayed is justice denied. But these ten goons are not going to get off...they will be prosecuted and their cases will reach logical conclusions. No more RSS backed terrorism--we have had it.
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Rahulbaba (10, Janpath, Delhi.) says:
January 29,2013 at 10:52 AM IST

Hey Amaru, how are u dear?? Your jan cheque is ready. I think you wrote all things that we and diggu sir discussed yesterday. so this time u know I decided to give u a bonus of 1 lacs . collect from 10 janpath, If I am not there then collect from mom.for next week's blog subject we will meet on this friday.


kaamra (Dehli) says:
January 27,2013 at 06:52 PM IST


Mr. Mishra the way you vomit poison on Hindu sangathan and do not write against Muslim fundamentalists what they have done to Hindus and Sikhs of Kashmir valley,bombing of cities of Dehli,Mumbai killing and injuring thousands indians,show you are neither a true Indian or secular,you are only a paid author we call such people traitors.You are actually helping BJP/RSS to make 2014 as communal issue.Since Cong. has nothing to offer due to corruption now in lakhs of crores,high inflation not before ,unemployment and bad law & order so it is to divide us on communal and caste lines

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Amaresh Misra (Delhi) says:
January 28,2013 at 12:14 AM IST
So you want RSS in India; since RSS is a fascist organization, this would mean creating Auschwitz like concentration camps in India. Do you belong to the human race or not? Have you seen how brutally Hitler murdered Jews and even Germans in Auschwitz like camps? Do you want the same happening in India? Tell me one country in the world today, that rules on the strength of the fascist ideology. Fascism is an ideology of the 1930s. It is dead and gone. It has ruined countries. It devours its own children.
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kaamra (Dehli) says:
January 28,2013 at 10:41 AM IST
Hinduism is another name of secularism.Since thousands years back tens of different reigions came and developed,either they are obserbed in Hinduism or living peacefully.like jain,sikhs, budhists,Parsi christians and Muslims.Unfortunately Hindu haters or traitors like you are born and create hatered among religions.RSS,Arya smaj,Rama krishen mission came on indian soil to reform.more and more Hindus are understanding the work of Rss and joining this great organisation of cultural nationalism.
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Amaresh Misra (Delhi) says:
January 28,2013 at 12:34 PM IST
Please don't equate RSS with Hinduism. They are two separate entities. For more than 80 years now, RSS has tried to emerge as Hinduism's chief platform. It has failed. Because Majority of Hindus are Sanatan Dharmis. And Sanatanis--followers of Jagadguru Shankaracharya--are anti-RSS.
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sane (shimoga) says:
January 28,2013 at 03:34 PM IST
Amaresh, what is the basis of your saying 'Jagadguru Shankaracharya's followers are anti-RSS? In contra, you had accused RSS as Brahmin majority organization in the past. Do you mean to say Hindus don't have rights of unity even after suffering huge disintegration, which cost every Tom, Dick and Harry across borders to trespass and loot the country? How do you want your countrymen to be? A scared, starving victims living as slaves in their own house?
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Amaresh Misra (Delhi) says:
January 28,2013 at 10:22 PM IST
I have never said that RSS is a Brahmin majority organization. In fact, it is the other way around. RSS is a fascist organization that ORIGINALLY wanted to usurp cultural-social leadership of Hindus from Brahmins and Shankaracharyas (of course nowadays, no one community can claim social leadership of Hindus). I am sure you are not aware of how desperately RSS-VHP tried putting up their candidate as the Shankaracharya of Badrinath. But Swami Swarupanand, who is my Guru, and also the Shankaracharya of Dwarikapeeth, foiled their plans (Swarupanandji now is the Shankaracharya of both Dwarika and Badrinath). Swarupanandji is dead against RSS. Swarupanandji feels that RSS is a fascist organization, which does not believe in God. Fascists are atheists--they use religion for political ends, but they are themselves irreligious. The debate between Swarupanandji and the RSS goes back to days when Guru Golwalkar was the RSS chief. GOLWALKAR told Swarupanandji that HE DOES NOT CONSIDER LORD RAM AS A GOD--BUT A MAHAPURUSHA. AND SWARUPANANDJI REPLIED THAT THIS WAS EXACTLY RAVANA'S POSITION! HE TOO DID NOT CONSIDER LORD RAM AS A GOD BUT A MAN (PURUSH)! THE ENTIRE LORD RAM VS RAVANA STRUGGLE WAS IDEOLOGICALLY BETWEEN TWO SCHOOL OF THOUGHTS--ONE, REPRESENTED BY RAVANA THAT DID NOT BELIEVE IN A HIGHER POWER THAN MAN; AND THE OTHER LED BY LORD RAM, THAT MADE THE POINT THAT THERE IS A JUST GOD WHO TAKES THE FORM OF MAN TO COMBAT INJUSTICE. SWARUPANANDJI WARNED GOLWALKAR THAT THE RSS CHIEF WAS INCHING CLOSE TO THE POSITION ADOPTED BY RAVANA! THEN, AFTER THE RECENT HIGH COURT JUDGMENT ON THE AYODHYA ISSUE, MOHAN BHAGWAT AGAIN CALLED LORD RAM, A MAHAPURUSH! RSS is fascist--both Hitler and Mussolini were irreligious. So is the RSS.
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sane (shimoga) says:
January 29,2013 at 08:23 AM IST
Amresh, your bulky reply is still not convincing! The concept of GOD is as infinite as GOD himself, at least in Hindu beliefs. That is why a devout Hindu sees God in everything GOD creates. That seems to be the logic behind worship of Rats, Monkeys, Stone, and you name it. So the GOD appears differently to Mohan Bhagawat, Guruji Gowalkar and Swami Swaroopanand and others, which is not an offense in Hindu practice. This privilege includes your freedom to criticize, even ridicule the beliefs of Hindu leaders which would have been fatal in other religions. Still my question is why is it that a person or an organization automatically becomes Fascist and Hitlerian when they talk of Hindu Unity? Do you mean to say that Swami Vivekananda, Lord Basaveshwara, Swami Dayanand Saraswathi were all Fascists since thy all intended to unify Hindus? If there are some fanatical elements in RSS, is it not the duty of every Hindu born to rectify and transform into a big Nation building force, instead of denouncing them completely as if they are representing Pakistan? Thanks for the healthy conversation Amaresh.
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Amaresh Misra (Delhi) says:
January 29,2013 at 02:30 PM IST
The point is whether RSS considers itself as religious or not. Whether its leaders consider Lord Ram as a God or just a Mahapurush...apart from other things, this is the contentious issue. Because if RSS-BJP-VHP consider Lord Ram as just a mere mortal man, then the RSS has to explain why they created a psuedo-movement to built the birthplace of Bhagwan Ram at Ayodhya? What credentials do these irreligious fascists have? There is a sinister design behind the RSS not regarding Hindu Gods as divine--because if they do consider Hindu Gods as Gods, then they cannot appropriate divinity for themselves. They cannot say that they represent the divine will of India. If RSS starts regarding Hindu Gods as Gods, then RSS will have to submit itself under the leadership of the Shankaracharya Swami Swarupanand! This is the crux of the matter behind the entire Ram Mandir movement--don't you see--it is so simple...
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dharmendra narayan (New Delhi) says:
January 28,2013 at 12:30 PM IST
Excellent Amaresh Misra, a classical reply to all fascist forces.You asking - do you belong to human race- is a question which everybody ask RSS minded people. Do the culture os RSS is the only nationalism, Is this nationalism to kill people in the name of religion and when people of same religion are there, then these RSS will divide them on caste creed and God's knows on how many lines. Only yesterday I was watching KBC where a dalit woman who won prizes in KBC was untimately enter the temple of her village . Which religion which culture this KAAMRA is talking. Human race ko baantewalon ko is dharti par rahne ka koi haq nahi hai. Manishankar Iyer has recently said very rightly that India kisi ki zajeer nahi hai, yeh un sabhi logoon ka hai jo is zameen par paida hote hain. He was echoeing same spirit which Russoue, the french revolutionist has said in his book The social justice : The fruits of earth belongs to everybody but the earth as such DOES NOT belong to anybody : human equality ka isse bara example nahi ho sakta hai. In other place he writes : Man is born free but he is everywhere in chains . RSS kaun hota hai Insaanoon ko apni defined cultural nationalism ki chain mein sare hindustaniyoon ko baandne wala. Amaresh I wish we have more and more writers thinkers like you and not like tarun Vijay, the greatest myopic man in modern day India, remaining in fool's paradise.
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Amaresh Misra (Delhi) says:
January 28,2013 at 10:28 PM IST
I am really overwhelmed by your response and your fundamental cognition of fascism being anti-humanity. Above, while replying to another comment, I have described how the RSS is not just anti-humanity--it is also irreligious. Religious and humanist Hindus will never preach hatred against Muslims or any community. It is only irreligious, anti-humanist, RSS types who can indulge in terrorism and nurture the dream of dividing and ruling India LIKE THE BRITISH.
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sp (new delhi) says:
January 29,2013 at 03:46 AM IST
So True, RSS has learnt divide and rule from the british. No wonder they did not fight the british when it was time to do that. They were against gandhi who was fighting for India's independance from the british. If not for the anti RSS gandhi and others like him, India would still be under the british boot. And all these RSS lovers would licking those boots. So much for them talking patriotic song. It is blasphemy for them to do that.
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mm (US) says:
January 29,2013 at 03:35 AM IST


Well Said.


Nirmesh Mehta (Mumbai) says:
January 27,2013 at 06:39 PM IST

This article has flawed reasoning at multiple places. First the author gives a list of 10 people who are RSS members and involved in terrorist activities and from this claims that RSS is a terrorist organization. Let us say that there are 10 Pakistani spies who are employed by the Government of India (very likely). Does that mean that the Government of India is actually a spy organization working for ISI? In order to claim that RSS is a terrorist organization, either a significant fraction of its members (say 10%) must be involved in terrorism or its top leadership must be involved in the same and using other activities as a front. I would be extremely surprised if the author could come anywhere close to these standards. Till then, one can only say that some members of RSS are terrorists. The author should note that since people accused of assasinating Gandhiji were a member of RSS, it was banned for some time but then a court judgement found that there was insufficient evidence to prove that the organization was involved; only involvement of individuals was proved. The other thing is that RSS gives training for violence, but that is very different from terror. The RSS that I know has a uniform for its cadres (which makes them stand out) teaches them to use lathis, tells tham that the sangh is larger than the individual but the country is larger than the sangh and says that members are free to choose their political affiliation. These hardly seem the characteristics of a terrorist organization. The RSS is nationalistic, maybe fascist, maybe communal - but it is unlikely to be terrorist.
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