We are not Indian Ku Klux Klan, says RSS leader Hosabale; flags misunderstandings in U.S.

The RSS is not an Indian mentation of the Ku Klux Klan, the American achromatic supremacist group, RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said successful Washington, highlighting the organisation's enactment crossed antithetic spheres of society.

Speaking astatine an interactive league astatine the New India Conference organised by the Hudson Institute, Mr. Hosabale said determination are misconceptions astir the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) akin to misunderstandings astir India successful the U.S..

"The communicative that has been built for decades, knowingly oregon unknowingly arsenic portion of an docket oregon otherwise, is that RSS is simply a Hindu supremacist organisation oregon that it is anti-Christian, anti-minority, anti-development and anti-modernisation," helium said during a treatment with writer Walter Russell Mead connected Thursday (April 23, 2026).