What is RSS?

 Why did Rahul Gandhi attack RSS even though it is not a political party?

RSS is the poisonous group dangerous to integrity diversity and Hindu Muslim harmony brotherhood of India, though it is not a political party nowadays relatively it is the real incumbent ruler of India.

Some features of RSS:

1. The RSS was intended to propagate the ideology of Hindutva and to provide "new physical strength" to the majority community.

An alternative interpretation is that it formed to fight against the Indian Muslims. (Wikipedia)

2. According to the RSS Muslims, Christians were thought of as "foreign bodies" implanted in the Hindu nation, who were able to exploit the disunity and absence of valour among the Hindus in order to subdue them. (Wikipedia)

3. It has no role in the independence movement of India. In accordance with Hedgewar's tradition of keeping the RSS away from the Indian Independence movement, any political activity that could be construed as being anti-British was carefully avoided. (Wikipedia)

4.Attitude towards Jews:

During World War II, the RSS leaders admired Adolf Hitler and Italy’s famous dictator Benito Mussolini.

Golwalkar allegedly took inspiration from Adolf Hitler's ideology of racial purity.

This did not imply any antipathy towards Jews.

5.Attitude towards Muslims and Christians:

Jaffrelot says that the RSS was intended to propagate the ideology of Hindutva and to provide "new physical strength" to the majority community. An alternative interpretation is that it formed to fight the Indian Muslims. BecauseMuslims, Christians and the British were thought of as "foreign bodies" implanted in the Hindu nation, who were able to exploit the disunity and absence of valour among the Hindus in order to subdue them.

(Parashar, Swati (2014). Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury. Routledge. p. 77.)

6. During the partition of India:

RSS activists also played an active role in the communal violence during Hindu-Muslim riots in North India.

In 1948, the RSS carried out 'loot, arson, rioting and killing of Muslims' in Delhi and other Hindu majority areas, as Dr Rajendra Parsad the first president of India wrote to Sardar Patel.

7.The opposition of National flag of India:

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)initially did not recognise the Tricolor as the National Flag of India. The RSS demanded, in an editorial titled "National Flag", that the Bhagwa Dhwaj(Saffron Flag) be adopted as the National Flag of India.

After the Tricolor was adopted as the National Flag by the Constituent Assembly of India on 22 July 1947, the Organiser viciously attacked the Tricolor and the Constituent Assembly's decision. In an article titled "Mystery behind the Bhagwa Dhwaj"

8.The opposition of the constitution of India:

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RRSS) initially did not recognise the Constitution of India, strongly criticising it because the Indian Constitution made no mention of "Manu's laws" – from the ancient Hindu text Manusmriti.

When the Constituent Assembly finalised the constitution, the RSS mouthpiece, the Organiser, complained in an editorial dated 30 November 1949:

But in our constitution, there is no mention of that unique constitutional development in ancient Bharat... To this day his laws as enunciated in the Manusmriti excite the admiration of the world and elicit spontaneous obedience and conformity. But to our constitutional pundits that means nothing"

(Wikipedia)

9.The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi:

Following Mahatma Gandhi's assassination in January 1948 by a former member of the RSS, Nathuram Godse, many prominent leaders of the RSS were arrested, and RSS as an organisation was banned on 4 February 1948.

10. It has been involved mostly in the riots when commissions were set up by various Indian governments to investigate several incidents, they also blamed the RSS in their investigative reports.

The riots in which the organization was officially held responsible include the Jagmohan report on the Ahmedabad riots, the DP Modern report on the Bhiwandi riots, the Vital report on the Tulsiri riots, the Jatinder Narain report on the Jamshedpur riots, and the Kanya Kumari riots, the Venugopal report and the report on the Bhagalpur riots are included.

Bann history of RSS:

During the British rule, the RSS was banned because of its affiliation with right-wing organizations in Europe, especially the German Nazis. After the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, it banned. Between 1975 and 1977, when Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister, she declared a state of emergency in India and the RSS was banned once again. In December 1992, the Babri Masjid was martyred by RSS workers.

Ideology:

The ideological basis of RSS is based on Hindu Hindi Hindustani. That is, India belongs to Hindus only. The rest of the non-Hindus were given the slogan of returning home (gharwapisi)to live in India and Muslims and Christians were forcibly converted to Hinduism. According to the BJP, if one does not use the slogan "Bharat Mata Ki Jai", he is not a patriotic and those are enemy of the country or traitor and Pakistani. Many people say that RSS was behind the Jawaharlal Nehru University controversy . This is the beginning of patriotism in India. It is a fact that this organization supports dictatorship rather than democracy influenced by fascist political ideologies and there is strong historical evidence that its leaders have directly benefited from the national and political ideologies of Hitler and Mussolini. Its great leaders went to Germany to study fascism. Therefore, it felt the need to train their members in the army only after seeing the Mussolini of Italy and Hitler of Germany Are embedded. The Nehru Memorial Museum Library in Delhi has a number of records which show evidence of their connection with Hitler and Mussolini. According to this record, B.S Moonje, a close associate of the founder of the Sangh, K.B.Hedgewar, is the first leader of India Who came in contact with these fascist rulers of Italy and Germany. On his return from the Round Table Conference in February 1931, Moonje travelled to Italy, inspecting important military schools and educational institutions, and meeting with Italian dictator Mussolini. “I also took a closer look at the organizations that were active for the education and training of fascism in Italy at that time”. Moonje wrote in his diary, referring to these organizations, "I liked the structure of the organization and its ideology. I am very impressed with it. ”Moonje added that the ideology of fascism can unite people. The address looks good from this organization. India, especially Hindu India, also needs such organizations. Our organization, RSS, under the leadership of Dr Hedgewar, is built in the same style. Moonje also revealed in his diary that he went to see Mussolini on March 19, 1930, at 3 pm. He came to the door and gave me a warm welcome. During the conversation, they asked me if I had seen their Union City. I told him that I was very much impressed with the organization he had set up and I believe that India needs such organizations. ”On his return to India, Moonje impressed Hedgewar and From the platform, Moonje was given free rein to publish and propagate fascist ideas. In this connection, a conference entitled "Fascism and Mussolini" was held on January 31, 1932, which was chaired by Hedgewar himself. In 1938, RSS leader SawarKar justified Hitler's anti-Semitic policy by saying, "The country is built on its majority sect and not on the minority sect, so what did the Jews do in Germany?" Fortunately, they were deported because they were a minority. ” In light of the above statement, his views on minorities living in India can be well understood. The fascist ideology of the Hindu nationalists is also illustrated by Moonja's letter, preserved in the Nehru Memorial Museum Library, which he wrote to Khapra, in which Moonje writes very clearly: Instead, we have to fight both Gandhi and the Muslims. This wheel (charkha)will eventually have to compete with the rifle. ” The BJP was born through the RSS. One of the organizations mentioned in the book "An Introduction to RSS".

Sardar Patel's view about the RSS:

After Gandhi's assassination on 30 January 1948, Patel began to view that the activities of RSS were a danger to public security.

In his reply letter to Golwalkar on 11 September 1948 regarding the lifting of the ban on RSS, Patel stated that though RSS did service to the Hindu society by helping and protecting the Hindus when in need during partition violence, they also began attacking Muslims with revenge and went against "innocent men, women and children". He said that the speeches of RSS were "full of communal poison", and as a result of that 'poison', he remarked, India had to lose Gandhi, noting that the RSS men had celebrated Gandhi's death. (Wikipedia)

Dr.Rajindra Parsad’s view about RSS:

The first President of India did not approve of RSS. In 1948, he criticised RSS for carrying out 'loot, arson, rioting and killing of Muslims' in Delhi and other Hindu majority areas. In his letter to home minister Patel on 14 May 1948, he stated that RSS men had planned to dress up as Muslims in Hindu majority areas and attack Muslims in Muslim majority areas to create trouble. He asked Patel to take strict action against RSS for aiming to create enmity among Hindus and Muslims.

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