RSS: An Organization Built Entirely on Copying Others

Prof. Devaraju Maharaju, Member of the National Book Trust 

The Great Copy-Paste: How RSS Borrowed Its Identity from Nazis, Communists, and More

Nothing Original: Unmasking RSS's Borrowed Ideology

From Nazi Uniforms to Communist Slogans — Is RSS an Original Idea or Just a Copy?

Why Should RSS Register? A Deeper Look at Its Copied Foundations

There's an intense debate going on in the country about the RSS organization not being registered. But what I feel is, why should it need to register? For example, there are many organizations in the world that aren't registered — take the Taliban, is that registered? There's ISIS, is that registered? There's Boko Haram, that's not registered either, yet they continue their activities uninterrupted, don't they? So in that case, why is this demand being made that RSS register itself? Isn't it an organization of the same kind? Moreover, it doesn't appear to us anywhere that the people working in it have their own brains or their own independent thinking, because from its birth until now, in 100 years, everything it has done has just been copying others — it seems to me it has no thought process or perspective of its own.

Why do I say this? Now look at the RSS uniform — the khaki shorts, white shirt — where did that come from? It was copied from Italy's Mussolini and Germany's Nazi army. Then look at the way they salute too — extending the right hand forward, the way they salute — that too was copied from the Nazis. Besides this, torturing and attacking those with opposing viewpoints, the opposition, minorities — that's what Hitler did, the Nazis did, we know — and these people are following and copying them here. That's why they too are carrying out the same kinds of activities. No one should say "this isn't the right way of thinking, think about this too" — whatever their thinking is, that's correct to them, and anyone who speaks against it faces attacks. Now that they hold power in the country, they have destroyed all the institutions, so people are being thrown in jail and left to rot without any cases against them. We are witnessing these things directly.

Look further at how RSS runs its schools — Saraswati Shishu Mandirs, Saraswati Vidya Bhavans — they run all these, don't they? Was that their own original idea? No, it wasn't. Before that, in all countries, seeing the educational institutions run by Christian minority organizations, by Christian missionaries, they copied that and thought, "let's also propagate our own way of thinking" — that's how they started these Saraswati Vidya Mandirs and Vidya Bhavans. There, the Christian missionaries did the same thing — along with providing education, they also propagated their religion. Copying that, what does RSS do too — provide a bit of education, and then spread our own way of thinking among the people — with that intention they established and continue to run all these educational institutions. We see this happening — this too is a copy, running schools is also something copied.

One very important thing — have you ever seen women taking part in RSS parades? Never. It's only for men. Only men go to RSS branches and participate in the programs — only men. Where did they copy this from? They copied it from Islam. In Islam, who goes to mosques and prays? Only men do. Women have no entry there. Taking the same practice, in these RSS branches only men are allowed entry — only they wear uniforms and do parades and carry out programs. That too is a copy.

Now, these RSS leaders being respected and worshipped — that too isn't an idea that came to them on their own. Back when the Russian Revolution happened and things were at their peak, the communists worshipped and respected Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin with devotion — that existed worldwide. Copying that, these people too are respecting and worshipping their own RSS leaders. That respecting and worshipping of their leaders is also something copied.

Further, look at the slogan "One Party, One Government, One Country" that they brought — this slogan of one country, one party, one government isn't originally RSS's. It belongs to the communists; according to communist ideology, they introduced and propagated it. So that too is a copy.

Now why are so many people in BJP-RSS caught up in the drug trade — that too is a copy. They copied that from the Jews. What do the Jews do there — they run the biggest drug trade in the world; copying them, these people have brought that drug trade here too and are running it.

Now how does the RSS establishment function? The RSS establishment functions like a hardcore Jewish establishment, or like a hardcore Taliban establishment. In a way, taken as a whole, RSS is largely an organization run by copying the Nazis.

Apart from all this, there's one more important point. They call it "Sangh Parivar" — but who first recognized this word "Sangh"? Not RSS, not BJP. The word "Sangh" came from "Buddham Sharanam" — "Sangham Sharanam Gachhami" — Buddhism recognized the Sangha and spread it widely across the world. They took that word "Sangh" from there and attached it to their organization, calling it "Sangh Parivar." Does your "Sangh" have any real meaning connecting to that? What was the Sangh they spoke of, and what is the sangh you people are running — there's no resemblance between the two at all. This is a "sangh" running with narrow-mindedness, petty attitudes, conspiracies and intrigues — whereas that Sangh ran with such a broad, expansive, and generous outlook. They took that word, copied it, corrupted it, and are using it here — that's what I wanted to say.

So, I've put a few points before you like this. Please think seriously about these matters as well. If these seem reasonable to you, do keep discussing them with your relatives and friends.