‘RSS workers were British informants’

Cong alleges Sangh activists had suppressed freedom struggle

- Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

Congress on Wednesday rejected PM Narendra Modi’s claim several Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leaders went to jail during the Independence struggle by charging that contrary to this the “RSS helped British” suppress the Quit India movement.

In a post on X, Congress wrote, “RSS, an organisation that divides the country: At the time of independence, its leaders neither went to jail nor were ever banned by the British. During the ‘Quit India Movement’ launched against the British in 1942, when the entire country was going to jail, the RSS was helping the British suppress this movement.”

In the detailed post, which it said was being “issued in public interest”, Congress further alleged, “A slogan about the RSS'’s betrayal was on everyone's lips — Those who were patriots went to fight. Those who were traitors joined the Sangh.”

It claimed that RSS was an organisation “none of whose leaders ever went to jail during the freedom struggle.”