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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Friday (October 31, 2025) criticised Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s remarks against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), comparing them to the connection utilized by the “Popular Front of India (PFI), the Muslim League, and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind.”
In a connection to the media, BJP MP and spokesperson Sambit Patra said Mr. Kharge should work the past of the RSS and what large leaders specified arsenic Mahatma Gandhi, Bhimrao Ambedkar, and elder Congress leaders person said astir the Sangh.
The Congress main had said that, successful his idiosyncratic opinion, the RSS should beryllium banned.
Congress leaders connected RSS
On the contented of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, Mr. Patra said the Kapur Commission had recovered that the RSS had perfectly thing to bash with it, adding that the Supreme Court’s judgement successful the substance was besides successful the nationalist domain.
In 1934, Mahatma Gandhi had visited an RSS campy successful Wardha and was impressed by the subject and the lack of untouchability successful the camp, Mr. Patra said. In 1939, Ambedkar visited a Sangh campy successful Pune and remarked that helium was blessed to find implicit equality betwixt the “upper and lower” castes, without anyone being alert of specified differences existing.
The BJP person said that erstwhile Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile President Pranab Mukherjee, each Congress leaders, had besides praised the RSS. During immoderate calamity -- COVID-19, earthquake, oregon flood -- RSS volunteers were ever astatine the forefront of nationalist service, Mr. Patra said.
Party MP and spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, successful a abstracted statement, added that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel himself had commended the RSS arsenic a nationalist organisation.
