Entity Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)

Indian Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation.

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RSS registration and funding: What ONGC’s ₹668 crore to linked groups reveals about accountability

The RSS remains unregistered, but ONGC paid ₹668.01 crore in CSR funds to 20 organisations identified as Sangh-linked over 2015–2025. The legal distinction between RSS and registered recipients matters, as do transparency and oversight of public-sector spending.

Open Post: RSS registration and funding: What ONGC’s ₹668 crore to linked groups reveals about accountability

Sugar-price rise blamed on anti-Muslim plot in viral reel; evidence points to hoarding and supply pressures

An August 2026 reel claims the Modi government and RSS raised sugar prices to punish Muslims. Prices really rose, but no evidence substantiates that communal motive; official records instead point to reduced production, crop damage, hoarding and supply pressures.

Open Post: Sugar-price rise blamed on anti-Muslim plot in viral reel; evidence points to hoarding and supply pressures

Ekal USA and Sewa USA received $117.8 million in grants and donations: what the RSS links and funding records show

Bellingcat traced $24.4 million in donor-advised grants within $117.8 million received by Ekal USA and Sewa USA in 2020–24. The charities’ links to RSS-associated organisations raise transparency questions, but the findings do not show that donors funded the RSS itself.

Open Post: Ekal USA and Sewa USA received $117.8 million in grants and donations: what the RSS links and funding records show

Modi’s limited press access is documented; Gandhi’s ‘PMO revolt’ claim remains unverified

Rahul Gandhi’s 2026 speech combined claims of very different evidentiary strength. Modi’s limited full-press-conference record is independently documented, and Amit Shah did not enter the Lok Sabha until the final day of a largely disrupted Monsoon Session; but Gandhi’s claims of an internal PMO “revolt,” insider information and Modi’s sleeplessness remain unverified.

Open Post: Modi’s limited press access is documented; Gandhi’s ‘PMO revolt’ claim remains unverified

Bhagwat’s outreach language is documented; personal community ties remain largely self-described

Mohan Bhagwat has repeatedly used inclusive language about religious and social communities, including in independently reported 2026 speeches, while the viral reel records him describing personal ties with Christians, Adivasis, Buddhists and Bohras. The broader outreach is verifiable, but the reel’s biographical relationship claims are mostly self-description, and inclusive rhetoric does not by itself establish…

Open Post: Bhagwat’s outreach language is documented; personal community ties remain largely self-described

Rahul Gandhi immediately limited his 2024 ‘Hindu’ criticism to BJP/RSS; partial circulation erased that boundary

In Lok Sabha on 1 July 2024, Rahul Gandhi linked violence, hatred and falsehood to people on the BJP side who called themselves Hindu; when Narendra Modi objected that this meant the whole Hindu society, Gandhi immediately said Modi, BJP and RSS were not the entire Hindu society. Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand later defended that fuller context.…

Open Post: Rahul Gandhi immediately limited his 2024 ‘Hindu’ criticism to BJP/RSS; partial circulation erased that boundary

Sanjay Singh’s RSS challenge on Vande Mataram mixes a documented flag dispute with an overstated freedom-struggle claim

A viral reel shows Sanjay Singh challenging the RSS to name four members jailed for chanting Vande Mataram, alleging it had no freedom-struggle history and did not fly the Tricolour at its Nagpur headquarters for 52 years. The headquarters had a roughly five-decade gap in official flag-hoisting and three activists were booked after forcibly hoisting…

Open Post: Sanjay Singh’s RSS challenge on Vande Mataram mixes a documented flag dispute with an overstated freedom-struggle claim

Umar Khalid repeatedly rejected ‘anti-national’ framing during the 2016 JNU controversy

A resurfaced clip records Umar Khalid rejecting Jinnah, invoking Gandhi, Azad and Ambedkar, and saying he needs no patriotism certificate from the RSS. Contemporary February–March 2016 reporting shows him separately rejecting terrorist and “anti-national” portrayals, supporting a recurring public argument over nationalism and dissent; the clip’s exact original date, venue and full source remain unverified.

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JNU 2016 record separates anti-India slogan reports from Umar Khalid’s own ‘jang’ explanation

An archival clip records Umar Khalid saying “jang” meant political struggle against the RSS/BJP, not India. Official records confirm anti-India slogans were reported at the 9 February 2016 JNU event, while Khalid’s 21 February speech said some slogans were not his; the exact date and full source of this particular clip remain unverified.

Open Post: JNU 2016 record separates anti-India slogan reports from Umar Khalid’s own ‘jang’ explanation

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