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A delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by Vice-Minister Sun Haiyan, connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026) met Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) wide caput Dattatreya Hosabale successful New Delhi.
The gathering went connected for astir an hr astatine Keshav Kunj, the RSS caput bureau successful the nationalist capital.
This came a time aft the CPC delegation met the elder BJP enactment present and the 2 organisations discussed astatine magnitude the means to beforehand inter-party communications.
Sources successful the RSS said that the gathering was scheduled connected the “request” made by the CPC delegation. As RSS main Mohan Bhagwat had anterior appointments, Mr. Hosabale visited New Delhi for the meeting.
Believe successful dialogue: RSS
“Sangh [leaders] conscionable everyone and it believes successful dialogue. They requested and we met,” a elder RSS person said, portion adding that the gathering had nary circumstantial docket arsenic the 2 sides held an informal treatment implicit tea.
“They discussed RSS’s organisational operation and our functioning,” helium added.
The gathering came up contempt the RSS not inviting the Chinese envoy for the caller centenary twelvemonth celebrations, including the lecture bid by Mr. Bhagwat that was held successful New Delhi and Bengaluru which were attended by diplomats from respective countries.
The gathering betwixt the CPC leaders and the RSS, BJP’s ideological parent, happened for the archetypal clip successful much than a decade. In 2009, nether the enactment of past RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav, a delegation of BJP and RSS leaders had visited Beijing.
Besides, a CPC delegation had paid a sojourn to Keshav Kunj successful the past arsenic well.
In 1 of his sentiment pieces written for an English quality website, RSS associated wide caput Manmohan Vaidya had shared the treatment points helium had with a CPC delegation successful Delhi respective years ago. Mr. Vaidya, successful the post, claimed that erstwhile helium questioned the delegation astir the reasons for their involvement successful the RSS, they had responded that they wanted to cognize much astir the Sangh Parivar due to the fact that it is simply a cadre-based organisation, conscionable similar the CPC, a cadre-based governmental party.
Mr. Vaidya further wrote that helium besides underscored to the CPC astir a favoritism betwixt the 2 organisation and stated that portion the CPC is simply a governmental enactment that works for and done a ‘State power’, the Sangh “works straight with the radical and society”.
