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USCIRF’s Call for Sanctions on the RSS Is a Major Moral and Political Marker
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has apart from continuing to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), also recommended targeted sanctions against the RSS; this is a first.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s Vijayadashami speech blows BJP’s poll bugle, extolls G-20 summit, asks if “external forces” were responsible for Manipur violence
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief, Bhagwat stated that he may not be able to attend the inauguration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya on January 22, 2024. For “security reasons as asked people to celebrate the occasion in their own hometowns; This year, the RSS invited singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan was one of the chief guests at its annual, Vijayadashmi (Dussehra) event in Nagpur, also event attended by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
VHP leader Sharan Pumpwell stopped by police from entering Udupi for attending Hindu Samajotsava
The prohibitive directive stemmed from the conditional bail granted to him in the case of delivering alleged provocative speech, raising calls of women taking up arms
Hindutva mob beats up teacher inside school for teaching diversity
Another harrowing incident of mob rule emerges from Gujarat, after a private school teacher was beaten for allegedly making students perform namaz as part of an awareness activity
Hate Speech: T Raja Singh attempts to incite hate in Rajasthan
A repeat offender, T Raja Singh continues to deliver hate speeches with impunity in Rajasthan while law enforcers and social media companies look away.
Hate speeches, stone pelting, brandishing of weapons – what VHP’s Shaurya Yatras have achieved till date
As Calcutta HC allows VHP- Bajrang Dal ‘Shaurya’ Yatras in the state, an analysis of videos that have emerged show myriad violations and targeting of religious minorities at events held to date
An open letter to the JNU VC: Your association with RSS defies humanism, anti-colonial struggle for Indian democracy!
This open letter by historian, Shamsul Islam traces the history of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) today stigmatised by the supremacist ideology of practioneers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
Far right, Hindutva ideology sparks concerns: tridents and pledges deepen communal divides in India’s Heartland
Tridents as Symbols: Unmasking the Ideological Shift in Rajasthan's Communal Landscape."
Busted: Assam chief minister’s claim that Bajrang Dal has no links with RSS
RSS’ own archives belie this claim that its octopus-like connections do not extend to the Bajrang Dal
VHP launches plans to conduct yatra 2,281 Yatras, cover “all Indian” villages
Vishva Hindu Parishad's extensive pre-election and Ram temple inauguration campaign across the nation sparks concern.
RSS-linked organisations invited for seminar at IIT, senior officials at TRIFED decry move
A senior official at TRIFED objected strongly through a letter decrying two organisations involved in meetings with the government cooperative body.
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