Why Congress Wants the RSS Registered: A Debate on Transparency and Democracy
- RSS Registration Demand Sparks Constitutional and Political Debate in India
- Congress vs RSS: The Growing Battle Over Accountability and Democratic Institutions
- Why Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge Demanded RSS Registration
- The Constitutional Argument for Transparency and Accountability
RSS, BJP, and the Debate Over Political Influence
Congress Bell the Hindutva Beast Now, India Has Been Waiting Since the Murder of Gandhi! Karnataka Home Minister, Priyank Kharge has taken a monumental decision to ask the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh to register. It is going to influence the future of Indian
democratic-secular polity and also has serious consequences for RSS, which, despite being a ‘cultural’ organization is the de facto ruler of India
presently. This action does not seem to be an individual’s act but outcome of
well-thought-out out planning of Congress leadership which has rightly reached
the conclusion that RSS must be confronted which has become the
omnipotent-omnipresent extra-constitutional authority undoing India.
According to a press report, Kharge, in a letter (June 13, 2026) to
RSS Supremo Mohan Bhagwat, sought details on the organisation’s legal status,
finances, office-bearers and tax compliance. It was needed as RSS officially
claimed that it had over 60,000 shakhas and crores of swayamsevaks across India
and abroad. Kharge stated that it was not only a legal requirement but also a
moral issue. He wrote: “It is precisely because of this scale, influence and
reach that the RSS must be held to the highest standards of transparency,
accountability and constitutional compliance.”
Touching the nerve of every patriotic Indian, Kharge stated: “An
organisation that regularly evokes nationalism, discipline and duty must also
demonstrate these values through transparency, compliance and respect for the
Constitution of India. The RSS cannot ask ordinary Indians to follow rules
while exempting itself from the same standards. If workers, small associations,
religious institutions, NGOs, trusts, companies and citizens are expected to
register, disclose, audit and pay taxes, then the RSS too must set an example
by abiding by the rules of the land.”
No government in independent India had dared to confront the RSS with
these so many critical questions!
Mohan Bhagwat’s response who was touring Kerala was dismissive of
Kharge’s charges by declaring that he did not “need to respond”. He went on to
argue: “We are not secretive; we are working on open ground. We are calling
people and telling them about us. This is politics, and all kinds of gimmicks
are being tried… Hindu Dharma is not registered, and many other entities are
not registered.”
But reality is the way Karnataka home minister has moved RSS will
have to respond. Bhagwat’s plea that for “over 100 years, nobody told us to
register”; the wait is going to be over! The RSS must “start preparing documents
for registration” as stated by Kharge.
In the meantime, a member of RSS or a Hindutva bigot in Karnataka,
Sudhir Bangera, 48, using filthy, derogatory, and Casteist language against the
home minister, threatened to kill him. “The time has come to finish you off” as
home minister had said he would not allow the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
to spread communalism.
RSS has been persistently resorting
to a lie that “The RSS is
not a political party. It does not take part in elections, nor its office
bearers are supposed to become office bearers of any political party. The RSS
has no election symbol nor its leadership or members have ever endeavoured to
seek political office. It is a social-cultural organization trying to inspire
all national activity.” [RSS English organ Organizer edit, February 6, 2000.)
We must
compare this claim of the RSS with the following two statements of Golwalkar,
who headed the RSS after the death of K. B. Hedgewar, and is considered the
greatest ideologue of the organization till date. The first statement tells us
about the kind of personnel who are sent to manipulate politics and what is
expected of them by the RSS. While delivering a speech on March 16, 1954, in
Sindi, Wardha, he said,
“If we say
that we are part of the organization and accept its discipline then
selectiveness has no place in life. Do what is told. If told to play kabaddi,
play kabaddi; told to hold meeting then meeting….For instance, some of our
friends were told to go and work for politics that does not mean that they have
great interest or inspiration for it. They don’t die for politics like fish
without water. If they are told to withdraw from politics then also there is no
objection. Their discretion is just not required.”
[Golwalkar,
MS, Shri Guruju
Samgr Darshan (collected
works of Golalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur (RSS publication
house), vol. III, n. d., p. 32.]
The second
statement is also very significant and clearly highlights the high level of
political ambitions of the RSS. While addressing the leading RSS cadres at
Indore on March 5, 1960 he said:
“We know
this also that some of our Swayamsevaks work in politics. There they
have to organize according to the needs of work public meetings, processions
etc., have to raise slogans. All these things have no place in our work.
However, like the character in a play whatever role has been assigned should be
portrayed with best of capability. But sometimes Swayamsevaks go beyond
the role assigned to a performer (nat) as they develop over-zealousness
in their hearts, to the extent that they become useless for this work. This is
not good.” [Ibid, vol. IV, pp.
4-5.]
The Nexus of
RSS made public by a publication of RSS
RSS is the
only NGO in the world which claims it to be a cultural organization but
worships arms on its foundation day and runs a tentacle of organizations
inimical to democratic-secular Indian polity. The central publication house of
the RSS, the Suruchi Prakashan, published a book, Param Vaibhav Ke
Path Par (The Road to Eternal Glory) in 1997 giving details of more than 40
organizations created by the RSS for different tasks. The preface of the book itself declares that,
“Without the
knowledge of the different kinds of activities of the Sawyamsevaks (the
volunteers of the RSS) the introduction of the RSS is incomplete. Keeping this
in mind it has been attempted in this book to produce the brief information
about the diverse activities of the Sawyamsevaks. This book covers the
organizational status till 1996…We believe that this book will prove to be of
use for those who want to understand the RSS with the Swyamsevaks.”
[Sapre, Sadanand D., Parm Vaibhav Ke Path Per, Suruchi
(central publication house of RSS), Delhi, 1997, p. 7.]
The BJP as a
political organization figures prominently in it, clubbed with the ABVP, Hindu
Jagaran Manch, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Swadeshi Jagaran Manch and Sanskar
Bharti. BJP figures at number 3 in the list of prominent organizations created
by the RSS. This book gives details of the creation and development of Bhartiya
Jan Sangh (the forerunner of the BJP) and then BJP by the RSS for purposes laid
down by the latter. It is to be noted that PM of India and almost all ministers,
BJP chief ministers and Governors publicly declare to be RSS cadres.
SAPRE’S BOOK
CAN BE THE MOST CRUCIAL DOCUMENT TO SHACKLE THE ANTI-NATIONAL RSS!
RSS & Conspiracies
The above publication of the RSS shows how the
organization is run in a clandestine manner. It runs like a well-organized
mafia through its subsidiaries and satellites. There has always been a
conscious attempt to create confusion about its different fronts which provide
RSS with the opportunity to dissociate with any of these as per its
convenience. For instance, it used Hindu Jagaran Manch (HJM) for attacking
Christians in late 1990s and when public opinion, media and Parliament seemed
to turn against it, RSS denied any relation with HJM. Whenever criminal
activities of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and ABVP are exposed, RSS declares
that these are independent organizations. Interestingly, it was often seen
mediating between the BJP lead government (1998-2004) and its these children.
It will be interesting to know that many of these
organizations have been organized in a clandestine manner, a characteristic of
a Fascist set-up. For instance, while giving the details of Hindu Jagaran Manch
(HJM), the book says,
From the point of view of Hindu
awakening this kind of forums (HJM) at present are active in 17 states with
different names like ‘Hindu Manch’ in Delhi, ‘Hindu Munani’ in Tamilnadu,
‘Hinduekjut’ in Maharashtra. These are forums, not associations or organizations,
that’s why it is not required to have membership, registration and elections. [Sapre, Sadanand D., Param Vaibhav Ke Path Per, Suruchi, Delhi, 1997, p. 64.]
It is clear that these work as mafia to avoid
scrutiny by law and government. Such an organizational mode provides an
opportunity to RSS to disown any individual or organization.
RSS indulges in conspiracies too. It can be known
by the following disclosure in Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par about a case in
Delhi immediately after Partition: “Swayamsevaks had posed to have
adopted Musalman religion in order to gain the confidence of Delhi Muslim
League for knowing their conspiracies.” [Ibid, p. 86.]
What these swayamsevaks,
impersonating as Muslims, on the eve of Independence were doing was made clear
by none other than Dr. Rajendra Prasad who later became first President of
the Indian Republic. In a letter to the first Home Minister of India, Sardar
Patel, on 14 March 1948, Prasad wrote: “I am told that RSS people have a
plan of creating trouble. They have got a number of men dressed as Muslims and
looking like Muslims who are to create trouble with the Hindus by attacking
them and thus inciting the Hindus. Similarly, there will be some Hindus among
them who will attack Muslims and thus incite Muslims. The result of this kind
of trouble amongst the Hindus and Muslims will be to create a conflagration.”
[Rajendra Prasad to Sardar Patel (March
14, 1948) cited in Neerja Singh (ed.), Nehru - Patel:
Agreement Within Difference—Select Documents & Correspondences 1933-1950, NBT, Delhi, p. 43.]
Following is the list of organizations mentioned in this RSS publication. List makes it clear that RSS is working to
control every aspect of Indian polity and society. Many more have surfaced
after publication of this book. The serial numbering is the same as in
the book. The bracket has been added to explain the nature and function of each
organization.
1. Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (Student)
2. Vidya Bhrati (Education)
3. BJP (political)
4. VHP, Bajrang Dal, Durga Vahini,
Dharam Sansad or Religious
Parliament (Anti-Minority).
RSS insists that Dharam Sansad is the highest supreme body of Hindus.
This book tells us that, "Vishwa Hindu Parishad
established Dharam Sansad
in 1984". It means that the Dharam
Sansad, or the religious parliament, is a puppet in the hands of the VHP,
child of RSS.
5. Akhil Bharati Vanvasi
Kalyan Ashram (Tribal)
6. Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (Working Class)
7. Bhartiya Kisan Sangh
(Peasants)
8. Rashtra Sevika Samiti (Social Work-Women)
9.
SEWA BHARATI and TATSAM (Social
Work. Both these outfits have taken over all governmental welfare
programmes in slums
and poor areas even in cities like Delhi
even during Congress rule. These are basically fronts to divert government
funds to the RSS. Recently got license for sending adopted kids outside the
country)
10.
Vishva Vibhag (Foreign Affairs)
11.
Akhil Bhartiya Rashtriya Shikshak
Mahasangh (Education)
12.
Bhartiya Shiksha Mandal (Education)
13.
Rashtriya Sikh Sangat (Sikhs)
14.
Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (Economics, gets crores of rupees from government
departments)
15.
Deen Dayal Shodh Sansthan (Intellectual)
16.
Bharat Vikas Parishad (similar
to # 9 above)
17.
Bhartiya Itihas Sankalan Yojna (History)
18.
Sanskrit Bharati (Sanskrit Language
which is favourite
of the UGC these
days)
19.
Sanskar Bharati (Culture, was in the fore-front against
artist MF Hussain
and films like Fire)
20.
Akhil Bharti Adhivakta Parishad
(Lawyers)
21.
Hindu Jagaran Manch (Against
Minorities. the terrible
attacks on Christians and Muslims in Gujarat and other parts of the country were
owned by it)
22.
Samajik Samrasta Manch (Anti-reservation front)
23.
Akhil Bhartiya Sahitya Parishad
(History)
24.
Pragya Bharati (Religious)
25.
Vigyan Bharati (Science)
26.
Laghu Udyog Bharati (Industry - Huge government funds available)
27.
Akhil Bhartiya Grahsak Panchayat (Consumers)
28.
Sehkar Bharati (Cooperative - gets huge government funds).
29.
Poorva Sainik Sewa Parishad
(Ex-Servicemen)
30.
Bharat Prakashan (Publishes organs of the RSS like the Organiser)
31.
Suruchi Prakashan, Delhi (RSS
central publication house)
32.
Lokhit Prakashan, Lucknow (Publication)
33.
Gyan Ganga Prakashan, Jaipur
(Publication)
34.
Archana Prakashan, Bhopal (Publication)
35.
Akashvani Prakashan, Jullundur (Publication)
36.
Bhartiya Vichar Sadhana, Nagpur (Publication)
37.
Sadhana Prakashan, Gujarat (Publication)
& about 10 more publishing houses in various parts of the country. Journals; Organizer (English, Panjanya, Rashtr Dharm (Hindi).
Not
listed: Arogya Bharti, Garbh
Vigyan Sanskar (Uterus
Science Culture for producing tall, white Aryan babies), Muslim
Rashtriya Manch and management of dozens of military schools.
Lies & Lies
Mohan Bhagwat as a habitual liar says
that RSS does not accept government funds. Many of its santans not only
get Indian government funds but also from international agencies LIKE World
Bank. Recently, Akhil Bharati Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram held a big all India event (21-25 May 2026) at Delhi for which RSS-BJP
government played host. [https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/delhi-schools-house-rss-linked-delegates-for-birsa-munda-event-near-red-fort-prnt/cid/2162106#goog_rewarded]
According
to an investigative report, out of funds for a prominent sports mission, the
flagship Target Olympic Podium Scheme (preparing elite athletes) crores of
rupees were pocketed by senior bureaucrats and two RSS-linked institutions in
Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. [https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/ministrys-special-fund-is-for-top-athletes-bureaucrats-dip-into-it-to-upgrade-their-own-sports-facilities-10688256/] There are
thousands and thousands such cases which do not come to lime light because RSS
is not registered and accountable. RSS does not have bank account/s despite
collecting billions of rupees from India and abroad, hiring lakhs of employees
for overt and covert activities. A true Indian patriot Lalan Singh, a worker
from Nagpur has been knocking at the judiciary at almost all levels for
securing a simple answer under what rules RSS is provided state security
costing billions of rupees of people’s money every year. Judiciary does not
allow even a pigeon hole view!
It does not
augur well for the largest democracy of the world that a gang is allowed to run
(or destroy) India which is openly inimical to democracy, Indian constitution,
Tricolour and equality. The most important ideologue of RSS, Golwalkar declared
as early as 1940: “RSS inspired by
one flag, one leader and one ideology is lighting the flame of Hindutva in each
and every corner of this great land. [Golwalkar, MS, Shri Guruju Samgr Darshan (collected works of Golalkar in Hindi),
Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur (RSS publication house), vol. I, n.d., p. 11.]
On the eve of independence Organiser
(dated August 14, 1947) denigrated Tricolour in the following words: “The
people who have come to power by the kick of fate may give in our hands the
Tricolour but it will never be respected and owned by Hindus. The word three is
in itself an evil, and a flag having three colours will certainly produce a
very bad psychological effect and is injurious to a country.”
RSS drunk with unchecked power is now equating RSS with Hindu Dharm which not long ago Jinnah too thought; Muslim League was Islam!
Congress Bell the Hindutva Beast Now, India Has Been Waiting Since Murder of Gandhi!
Shamsul Islam
June 16, 2026
