'Want to know whom am I giving security to?': Karnataka home minister Priyank Kharge on RSS transparency demand
Kharge cited the RSS annual report’s claim of 2,000+ events and 562 marches as he pressed for answers on registration, funding and compliance.
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The real question Kharge’s letter avoids: Where does Indian law require RSS to register?
Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge’s letter to RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat has been widely projected as a call for transparency and accountability. The letter asks how an organisation of the RSS’s size can function without formal registration and demands explanations regarding its finances, structure and legal status. Yet beneath the rhetoric lies a more fundamental question that the letter itself fails to answer: which law requires the…
How the RSS changed its constitution to defend legal status and guru dakshina
Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge’s persistent questioning of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s legal status appears to have forced a reckoning of sorts. The organisation’s chief Mohan Bhagwat and other senior functionaries have now claimed that these questions were settled decades ago and are offering “evidence” to that effect. These statements are only half the story. The rest lies in the RSS’ constitution and has been pieced together by …
Bengaluru: Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge has once again made provocative comments about the RSS. He questioned whether one of the most influential organizations in India can be asked to disclose more about its structure and financial details, asking how far it is justified that its chief Mohan Bhagwat is asking. Meanwhile, this question has now become the focus of a big political debate. The Karnataka minister's direct letter to Bhagwat…
APCR Karnataka Condemns BJP MP Ramesh Jigajinagi’s ‘Casteist and Threatening’ Remarks Against Priyank Kharge
Bengaluru, June 21: The Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) Karnataka has strongly condemned remarks made by BJP MP Ramesh Jigajinagi against Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge, describing them as casteist and threatening. In a statement issued on Friday, APCR Karnataka State Secretary Akmal Razvi criticized Jigajinagi’s comments made while responding to Kharge’s demand for details regarding the registration, finances, office-b…
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