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"However, this isn't a measure, service isn't a competition," he added.

While the party's founders never had a majority and needed to keep a diverse coalition intact, today's BJP doesn't need any allies. Apart from Modi and Shah, they also need to thank the founders

Slamming Governor R N Ravi for commenting that foreign funding fuelled anti-Sterlite demonstrations, the ruling DMK and its allies on Friday announced a massive protest against him here on April 12. The DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) said that ever since Ravi assumed office in 2021, his speeches and activities have been controversial and mysterious. "Our struggle will not cease until he stops activities that lower the Assembly's dignity." On April 5, Ravi had stoked fresh controversy by remarking that foreign funds had fuelled the protests against Sterlite plant in Thoothukudi and Kudankulam nuclear power plant. While addressing civil service aspirants in Raj Bhavan, Ravi said such protests were aimed at hindering progress Forgetting that he was a Governor, Ravi has been "desperate to project himself as a representative of the BJP and RSS", a joint statement of SPA parties said. "To say that the Kudankulam (nuclear power plant) and Sterlite protests were driven by funds

A RSS worker has filed a defamation complaint against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a Haridwar court for describing the organisation as "Kauravas of the 21st century."

"Politics is being done in the name of religion in the country. But if you take along the people belonging to every religion and caste for the country's good, this country will remain united," he said

Claiming that India is witnessing a situation where politics of the extreme right is holding hands together with the greed of the super rich, CPI Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Vishwam asserted that they should be fought back at any cost. The CPI leader urged all political parties in the country committed to democracy to come together to resist and defeat RSS and BJP, which he alleged are trying to undermine democratic norms of the country. "India is witnessing a situation where the politics of the extreme right hold hands together with the greed of the super rich," he said, inaugurating the delegate session of the 30th conference of the Bengal Provincial Bank Employees' Association on Saturday. Claiming that they together pose the "biggest threat" to democracy, secularism and the basic structures of the constitution, the CPI leader asserted that they should be fought back at any cost. Vishwam said that the working class should understand the need for unity and struggle at this critical ...

The core message of the RSS' top decision-making body at its recent meeting was its unreserved support to its affiliate, BJP, marking a break from the past

Some forces in the world are not accepting "Bharatiya" resurgence and are opposing Hindutva thought within and outside the country, devising new conspiracies for creating mutual distrust and anarchy in society, and there is a need to defeat their designs, the RSS' top decision making body said on Monday. Passing a resolution at its meeting here, the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) urged the people to be vigilant against the forces that are instigating divisiveness. The ABPS wishes to underscore the fact that while many countries have respect and goodwill for Bharat, some forces in the world are not accepting this Bharatiya resurgence based on its 'Swa' or selfhood, the resolution passed at the annual meeting read. These forces opposing Hindutva thought within and outside the country are devising new conspiracies for creating mutual distrust in society, systemic alienation and anarchy by instigating selfish interests and divisiveness,

While the RSS and its front organisations are bracing themselves up for the ground work in each of the 80 parliamentary constituencies, it would focus particularly on the 16 the BJP lost in 2019

The RSS paid tributes to late Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, socialist leader Sharad Yadav, senior advocate Shanti Bhushan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Hiraben Modi at its annual general body meeting here on Sunday. The three-day annual general body meeting of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) started here on Sunday, with the organisation paying homage to political leaders and noted personalities who died in the last one year. The list contained more than 100 names, including that of Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Yadav and Bhushan. The Sangh also paid tributes to late Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and former Odisha minister Nabakishore Das, who was killed by a police officer. The list also included the names of Sagar Sahu and Budhram Kartam, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders from Chhattisgarh who were "martyred in Naxalite violence". The list of noted personalities who were paid tributes included the names of the prime minister's mother, Hiraben

A key annual meeting of the RSS leadership will begin here on Sunday and the deliberations will focus on how to create an atmosphere of social harmony, motivate people to perform their duties and make them self-reliant. The three-day meeting will also review the progress of the organisation's expansion plan for the centenary of its foundation in 2025, head of media relations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sunil Ambekar earlier said. He said the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha will be attended by more than 1,400 office-bearers, including RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale. From the BJP, president J P Nadda and general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh will attend the meeting, he said. A select number of office-bearers of 34 RSS-linked organisations including Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) will also attend it, he added. The Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha is the highest decision-making body of the RSS, the ideological fountainhead of the .

Hitting back at the BJP over its criticism of Rahul Gandhi's remarks in the UK, the Congress on Tuesday said the ruling party is "rattled" whenever he speaks and was resorting to distorting, twisting and lying on his comments. The Congress' attack came after Ravi Shankar Prasad, a former Union minister, lashed out at Gandhi for his criticism of the state of democracy in India and the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh). At a press conference, the BJP leader also accused Gandhi of seeking the intervention of Europe and the US in India, and said he has gone against the consensus in India against any interference in its internal affairs by foreign powers. "Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad is doing what he and his Supremo do best-- distort, twist, defame and lie with a straight face," Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said in a tweet. Tagging a media report on Prasad's remarks, Congress' media department head Pawan Khera said on Twitter, "There is nothing more amusing than watching an ...

The Gandhi family is to the Congress what the RSS was to the BJP. But the latter has now reduced its dependence on the RSS to almost zero

Gandhi, who is on a trip to London, also said that the Prime Minister PM is in "denial mode" over Chinese incursions into Indian territory

Bhagwat addressed a gathering here on Sunday after inaugurating a multi-specialty hospital at the Aatam Manohar Jain Aradhana Mandir complex

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) joint general secretary Krishna Gopal has said that India is in a position to send wheat to Pakistan to avert the food crisis in the neighbouring country

The ruling CPI (M) in Kerala on Tuesday continued to target the Jamaat-e-Islami over its recent discussion with the RSS and urged the Muslim outfit to explain to the public benefits of the parleys. Party state secretary M V Govindan charged that the organisation was accusing the Left party of 'spreading Islamophobia' to deliberately cover up their stand towards the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He was speaking to reporters in the district in between the party's state-wide month-long People's Defence Rally, which began here on Monday. Stepping up his attack, Govindan said, "The Jamaat-e-Islami should explain to the people clearly what they are going to achieve by holding discussions with the RSS. The fact is that by using the term Islamophobia, a deliberate attempt is being made to cover up the stand of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the RSS." They were trying to blame the CPI (M) for that, he claimed and demanded that the outfit explain the benefit of holding talks with the Sangh Parivar.

Hailing the Indian family system, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said the country will become powerful when the feeling of nationalism is awakened in every family and urged Sangh members to work towards ending "casteism, inequality and untouchability" in society. He said the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will take up the cause of environmental protection and called for encouraging people to join the campaign of planting "One tree in the name of the nation". "Till now, the Sangh has been mainly doing the task of nation-building through individual development. The effect of Sangh's efforts is now visible in various fields," he said. Addressing RSS members and their families, Bhagwat said it is the responsibility of the 'Sangh Pracharak' to remove discrimination and create a social environment free from all evils. "Casteism, inequality and untouchability have to be removed from society. Social arrogance and inferiority complex both should end. We have to do the work of connecti

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said that one ideology or person cannot make or break a country and that good countries of the world have a multitude of ideas

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday asserted that everyone in the country will have to work collectively to make India 'vishwa guru' (global teacher). Addressing a gathering at Sant Maharshi Menhi Ashram in Bhagalpur, Bhagwat also said that people should refrain from feeding their egos and steer clear of materialism. "Ancient teachings of saints should first be practised at home and later spread outside. The teachings of our saints should first be practised in our everyday life... that should be the priority. "All of us, including the saints and seers, need to work collectively to make India 'vishwa guru'," the RSS chief said. He advised people to always speak the truth. "People should not feed their egos and steer clear of materialism. One should always stick to the truth. The world is an illusion, Brahma alone is the truth," Bhagwat added. Acharya Kishore Kunal, secretary of Mahavir Mandir Temple Trust in Patna, was also present at the ashram on the