As Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat prepares for a 10-day long visit to West Bengal, political storm have escalated, with the Trinamul Congress (TMC) and the Congress strongly opposing what they call the RSS and BJP’s "saffronisation” politics and call for resistance against "fundamental politics" of Sangh chief Bhagwat."
Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee today condemned the statement of Mohan Bhagwat, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief as anti-national and said this was uncalled for.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday criticised the statement made by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat that Bharat (India) got its “true independence” on the consecration ceremony day of the Ram temple at Ayodhya
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat is set to visit Bengal on an extended tour amidst the ongoing tension over the persecution of the Hindu minorities in Bangladesh and the other issues like infiltration and arrest of militants in West Bengal.
He will be accompanied by eight other RSS functionaries, including the RSS Sarkaryawah or General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale.
Later she participated in an anti-CAA and anti-NRC rally from College Square to Shyambazar which was attended by hundreds of students, cultural activists and senior CPI (M) leaders.
Deputy Leader of the Opposition Rajendra Rathore had raised the matter of security of Sangh leaders and their offices on Wednesday citing an IB report.
The protesters, led by former BJP MP, Dr Udit Raj, called the apex court’s decision violation of the Constitution and said that it is a step towards scrapping reservation.
Although VD Sarvarkar, the then president of the Hindu Mahasabha, kept demanding Akhand Bharat or undivided India, ironically he was the one who propounded the twonation theory in 1923, in his book Hindutva, 17 years before Jinnah did in 1940. MS Golwalkar, the head of the RSS, also felt that the freedom movement should not be an anti-British struggle for territorial gains, instead it ought to be a movement towards establishing a Hindu nation. The Congress leadership had increasingly sidelined Gandhi by the end of 1946
CPI-M politburo member and former MP Muhammad Salim said that the union government must recognise the citizens of the country otherwise how long would the people tolerate the government’s misrule.
