'Totalitarian outlook': Cong quotes Gandhi to chide ‘communal’ RSS

Says Sardar Patel also criticised the organisation

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In a scathing attack on the RSS on its 100th anniversary, the Congress on Thursday cited excerpts from a book to claim that Mahatma Gandhi described the Sangh as a “communal body with a totalitarian outlook’.

The opposition party also cited a media report from 1948 that quoted a speech of India’s first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at a Congress session in Jaipur in which he vehemently criticised the RSS.

In a post on X, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said Pyarelal was one of Gandhi's closest aides, being part of his personal staff for almost three decades, and became his secretary after the death of Mahadev Desai in 1942.