RSS at 100 Years

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which completes 100 years, has no contribution in India’s freedom struggle. Instead, its history is filled with betrayal of the nation and hatred against our freedom fighters.

Should RSS be glorified for:

• Serving the British instead of joining the freedom struggle?
• Boycotting the Tricolour and disrespecting the Constitution?
• Spreading venom against Baba Saheb Ambedkar and burning copies of the Constitution?
• Inspiring Nathuram Godse, the first terrorist of independent India, who killed Mahatma Gandhi?
• Being banned by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel for its politics of hate and violence?
• Labeling great revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad as anarchists?
• Boycotting the 1930 Civil Disobedience Movement and the 1942 Quit India Movement?
• Joining hands with Jinnah’s Muslim League in Sindh, Bengal and NWFP to run coalition governments?
• Advocating Manusmriti, which enslaves women and denies them equality?
• Refusing to give leadership to Dalits, OBCs, and Adivasis in its 100-year existence?

The RSS has always stood against India’s diversity, democracy, and secularism. Its political wing, BJP, has today inherited the same divisive and communal ideology. By using religion for political gain, BJP–RSS are creating a dangerous environment where only one religion is treated as supreme and others are denied their rightful place in the nation.

From the ramparts of the Red Fort, attempts are being made to glorify RSS. But no amount of propaganda can change the dark truth of RSS history. The training imparted by RSS has produced leaders who use hateful language—“kabristan–shamshan, mangalsutra–mujra”—and divide Indians along religious lines.

India is a land of all religions, all cultures, and all languages. The Congress Party believes in Sarva Dharma Sambhav and equal respect for all. We will continue to fight the divisive politics of RSS and BJP.

As someone said rightly:

“Jo deshbhakt the, woh jung me gaye,

Jo gaddar the, woh Sangh me gaye.”

Today, the nation needs unity, not division. Congress reaffirms its commitment to protect India’s secular and inclusive ethos against the hate-filled ideology of RSS–BJP.

Issued by:— 

Rajesh Kumar Sethi

National Coordinator, AICC Minority Department, Incharge Manipur .