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It's Hindu Rashtra, start calling it 'Bharat' and not India: Bhagwat
The Morning Standard
|September 02, 2023
RASHTRIYA Swayamsevak Sangh RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said that India is a Hindu Rashtra’. The leader further exhorted that it should be called Bharat’ instead of India’.
Speaking at two different programmes one at Nagpur and another at Guwahati— the RSS supremo said that all Bharatiyas’ are Hindus because Hindu’ represents all Indians. Hindustan is a Hindu Rashtra and this is a fact. Ideologically, all Bharatiyas are Hindus and Hindus mean all Bharatiyas. All those who are in Bharat today are related to the Hindu culture, Hindu ancestors and the Hindu land,” he said at a function in Nagpur.
This story is from the September 02, 2023 edition of The Morning Standard.
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