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In a archetypal since the Galwan struggle successful 2020 and a thaw successful India-China ties successful 2024, a delegation of Communist Party of China (CPC), led by Vice-Minister Sun Haiyan, volition conscionable elder officials of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026).
This is not the archetypal clip that office-bearers of the Communist Party of China are gathering the Sangh leaders. In 2009, a delegation of BJP and RSS leaders visited Beijing.
In 2014, RSS person Pradeep Joshi had welcomed the CPC’s basal to amend textbooks successful Chinese past and morality to reconstruct Chinese greatness.
The gathering taking spot successful RSS’s centenary twelvemonth is an effort of assurance gathering measures betwixt the 2 countries, a elder RSS functionary told The Hindu. He confirmed that the gathering volition beryllium held successful New Delhi connected January 13 successful which elder RSS functionaries volition stay present.
No invitation earlier
The gathering came contempt the RSS having skipped inviting the representatives of China successful its centenary twelvemonth celebrations, which was held successful Nagpur connected the juncture of Vijayadasami. Chinese envoys were besides not invited successful the lecture bid of RSS main Mohan Bhagwat, which was held successful New Delhi successful August and attended by ambassadors of respective countries.
As portion of a bid of meetings, the CPC delegation besides visited the BJP office successful the nationalist superior connected Monday (January 12) and held discussions with enactment leaders, including BJP wide caput Arun Singh. The 2 organisations discussed astatine magnitude the means to beforehand inter-party communications betwixt the BJP and the CPC.
“Chinese Ambassador to India H.E. Xu Feihong besides joined the delegation,” Vijay Chauthaiwale, in-Charge, Foreign Affairs Department of BJP wrote connected X.
The delegation is besides expected to conscionable a Congress delegation, led by enactment person Salman Khurshid, successful the days to come, sources successful the enactment confirmed.
