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The Congress on Wednesday rubbished Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leaders went to jail during Independence. The Congress said that on the contrary, RSS leaders helped the British suppress the ‘Quit India’ movement.
“RSS, an organization 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,’ the Congress posted on X.
Earlier in the day, PM Modi attended RSS centenary celebrations in Delhi. He said that RSS founder KB Hedgewar and other swayamsevaks had been jailed for their fight against the British. He said that the RSS also helped freedom fighters take shelter against the British.
PM Modi said that RSS workers and leaders suffered at the hands of the British for participating in the 1942 Chimur agitation in Maharashtra. He further said: “Again after Independence, RSS suffered at the hands of the Nizams of Hyderabad. RSS also sacrificed during the Independence of Goa and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. But RSS was steady on its belief: ‘Nation first’ and aim of ‘Ek Bharat, shreshth Bharat’.”
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The Congress further said that none of the RSS leaders ever went to jail during the freedom struggle. The party alleged that the RSS called “patriots and revolutionaries like Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, and Chandrashekhar Azad anarchists and worked in favoUr of British rule”.
“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’,” the Congress said.
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