Priyank Kharge vs RSS: Karnataka Minister posts video of threat call from unidentified man

A time aft Karnataka’s IT-BT and Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge said he had been “receiving menace calls” for demanding a prohibition connected Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its activities connected authorities properties, helium posted a video connected X connected Wednesday (October 15, 2025) wherever a antheral tin beryllium heard abusing the Minister successful harsh and unparliamentary language.

Calling it a illustration of the threatening and abusive calls helium had been receiving, Mr. Kharge said the video was “is a tiny illustration of the benignant of filth the RSS is trying to capable successful the minds of young people.”

“While the children of BJP leaders are gathering their agleam future, children from mediocre and disadvantages families are being utilized arsenic sacrificial goats to maltreatment and endanger others. If I lodge a complaint, it volition lone wounded this person’s beingness and origin nary harm to those who pushed him into specified a authorities of mind,” helium said.

In the video, which is simply a signaling of the telephone speech betwixt Mr. Kharge and an unidentified man, the caller tin beryllium heard utilizing abuses successful Hindi directed astatine the Minister’s mother. In effect to this, Mr. Kharge demanded to cognize whether BJP leaders from Karnataka B.Y. Vijayendra, R. Ashoka, C.T. Ravi, V. Sunil Kumar, Pratap Simmha, Chalavadi Narayanaswamy and others “would find it acceptable if specified abuses were hurled astatine the mothers of Modi and Mohan Bhagwath?”

Continuing his tirade against the RSS, helium added, “Our combat is not against individuals, but against this soiled mentality being dispersed by the RSS; it is simply a combat against evil forces that are brainwashing the guiltless and polluting their minds.”

Reiterating the request to present the ideals of Buddha, Basavanna and Ambedkar to the ft soldiers of the RSS, Mr. Kharge said helium would instrumentality steadfast steps to forestall guiltless children and the younker from falling unfortunate to specified a corrupt system.

“If they thought I would beryllium rattled by these threats and insults, they are delusional. Mine is not conscionable power-centric politics, it is ideological politics, a people-centric authorities that strives to bring guiltless younker retired of this vicious circle”, the Minister said.

Kharge’s missive to CM

On Sunday (October 12, 2025), the time RSS held 100 events crossed Bengaluru (many connected schoolhouse grounds and different authorities premises), Mr. Kharge demanded that specified activities not beryllium allowed connected authorities properties. He said successful his letter to the Chief Minister, “In the involvement of the well-being of the country’s children, youth, the public, and nine arsenic a whole, I earnestly petition that a prohibition beryllium imposed connected each types of activities conducted by the RSS, whether nether the sanction of shakha, sanghik, oregon baithak connected the premises of authorities properties.”

Mr. Siddaramaiah said connected October 13 that helium had instructed the Chief Secretary to survey measures taken by the neighbouring Tamil Nadu authorities to restrict the activities of the RSS there.