Hosabale slams Kharge's RSS remarks

RASHTRIYA Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Saturday dismissed Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s call to ban the RSS, saying that society has accepted the organisation as one that works for national unity, security, culture and development.

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“Society has accepted the RSS as an organisation that works for the nation’s unity, security, culture and development. It cannot be banned just because some leader wishes it,” Hosabale said in Jabalpur on the concluding day of the RSS’s three-day national executive meeting. Reacting to Kharge’s remarks, that he favoured a ban on the organisation, comparing its ideology with “poison,” Hosabale added: “The RSS was banned thrice in the past, but everyone knows what happened later. Those bans didn’t hold water. Politicians demanding it again should learn from