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Volunteers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) march through a street during a three-day
workers camp on the outskirts of Ahmadabad. AP/file
The RSS is working for the agenda of Hindu nationalism and has
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The RSS is working for the agenda of Hindu nationalism and has
created many children organisations like Vishwa Hindu Parishad,
Bajrang dal and Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram to name a few.
This has been the major plank of their work in many Adivasi areas
in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa in
particular.
They have devised new rituals, like making Adivasis take baths in
hot springs, participate in havans, and yagnas (Hindu rituals
around fire) and then, declare that they have become Hindus.
The RSS combine does not believe in diversity; they assert that
India belongs to the Hindus alone and so they dub Christianity
and Islam as foreign religions.
Factually speaking, there has hardly been any case where force or
allurement has been reported.
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