Tag: RSS

RSS in a new avatar

Times they are a changin’. Ninety-three years after the formation of the RSS, the exclusively male, Hindu-dominated organization which is regarded as the guiding force behind the BJP has decided to turn over a new leaf. The reasons can only be speculated upon because on the face of it, there was no need for it …

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September 26, 2018

Former RSS zila pracharak arrested for anti-organisation activities

Jabar Singh, the zila pracharak, was recently expelled from the RSS for alleged anti-organisation activities.

September 23, 2018

RSS anti-minority, anti-Dalit: BSP chief Mayawati

She also termed the ordinance making triple talaaq a criminal offence a politically inspired move.

September 20, 2018

When elections come, RSS remembers Ram temple: Congress

Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari, while responding to questions on the RSS's three-day lectures series that ended on Wednesday.

September 20, 2018

Clashes with CM worry MEA brass

Sections of the ministry of external affairs are worried about the foreign office’s recent clashes with Mamata Banerjee. They are worried on two counts. She might even be the next prime minister, if the political chatter around the 2019 elections is to be taken into account. It’s worrisome if someone so powerful is on the …

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September 19, 2018

RSS doesn’t interfere in government policies, functioning: Mohan Bhagwat

He also said the aim of the Sangh was to unite the entire society. "Since the birth of the Sangh, it has decided to stay away from politics.

September 18, 2018

Divide persists

It would be an over-simplification to reduce if to mere physical geography, just as it would be an exaggeration to deem it a case of intellectuals versus the “plebs”. Yet the sharp contrast in the results thrown up in the elections to the students unions of the two premier universities in the Capital has its …

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September 18, 2018

People target RSS out of fear, says Mohan Bhagwat

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday said the organisation has emerged as a "power" in the country and many people target it out of fear.

September 17, 2018

Hindus have suffered for thousands of years: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Chicago

Hindus have no aspiration of dominance and the community will prosper only when it works as a society, said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

September 8, 2018

Homosexuality not a crime, but do not support same-sex marriages: RSS on SC verdict

A five-judge bench of the apex court decriminalised part of Section 377, which criminalised consensual unnatural sex, saying it violated the rights to equality.

September 6, 2018

Congress will respond once the RSS invite comes: Abhishek Manu Singhvi

RSS is reportedly planning to invite Congress president Rahul Gandhi to attend a lecture series by Mohan Bhagwat to be held Delhi from September 17-19

August 28, 2018

RSS may invite Rahul Gandhi to attend lecture series by Mohan Bhagwat

RSS will be organising a three-day lecture series by Mohan Bhagwat on the theme, 'Future of Bharat: An RSS perspective', at Vigyan Bhavan from September 17-19

August 27, 2018

Rahul Gandhi ignorant about India, so can’t understand Sangh: RSS

He is ignorant about India and its cultural ethos of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam', which means the world is one family, Kumar claimed.

August 27, 2018

Overseas arrogance

Indeed curious is the wisdom that Rahul Gandhi spouts before an audience abroad. At home he confines himself to mundane politicking. Is it because before a foreign jaunt he gets his captive think-tank to identify what could sell, and then has speech-writers prepare him to cut an impressive figure, in contrast to his insipid presentations …

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August 27, 2018

Rahul in UK: Defeating BJP first priority of Opposition in 2019, leadership later

Rahul Gandhi said the Opposition was working to defeat an onslaught on the Constitution and to defend the nature of Indian state.

August 25, 2018

RSS is similar to Muslim Brotherhood: Rahul Gandhi in UK

Congress president Rahul Gandhi targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), in the United Kingdom on Friday.

August 24, 2018

Vajpayee in the pantheon of greats

Jawaharlal Nehru was one of the first to spot Atal Behari Vajpayee’s potential. When Vajpayee entered the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1957 as a young Jana Sangh MP, Nehru observed him quietly from the treasury benches, noting his fiery oratory and skill with words. One day, while introducing Vajpayee to a visiting …

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August 22, 2018