![]() ![]() ![]() It is really atrocious that an organization, which was at least twice banned for anti-national activities by the Government of India after independence should pose as controlling authority of patriotism in the country. Sarsanghchalak or Supreme Leader of the RSS, KS Sudershan while addressing a rally on the eve of 75th founding day of the RSS in Nagpur, called upon Muslims and Christians of the country to prove their patriotism. "With Swayamsevaks (volunteers) like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishan Advani in the drivers’ seats in the National Democratic Alliance Government at the Centre in India (1998-2004), the RSS accelerated its old favourite pastime of undoing democratic-secular polity and minority bashing in India. It was not clear to what extent the collaboration was acknowledged: surveillance methods aimed at controlling leftist networks were now employed in tapping into the leftist networks' own intelligence, while not a few of these leftist networks' publications dropped broad hints to government agencies as to who the Nazis in India were. There began, therefore, a curious arms-length collaboration between communist and socialist publications and the police and intelligence organisations that had persecuted them for so long. After 1938, and following the Munich ‘Pact’ which condemned Czechoslovakia to Nazi dismemberment, when the state administration finally awoke to the danger of National Socialist organisations in India, and to their Indian representatives, they could rely in the first instance mainly on the very organisations they had regarded as enemies for so long, tapping into their information networks and reading their publications. ![]() Throughout the interwar period, the British Indian administration was geared towards a war against communists and 'terrorists'. ![]()
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