Centre took five decades to realise ‘mistake’ of banning government staff from joining RSS: MP HC
The High Court questioned why the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s activities ‘as a whole’ were treated as ‘communal or anti-secular’ in the 1960s.
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It took the Centre five decades “to realise its mistake” in banning government employees from joining the “internationally renowned” Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, said the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday, The Hindu reported.
“It took almost five decades for the Central government to realise its mistake; to acknowledge that an internationally renowned organisation like RSS was wrongly placed amongst the banned organisations of the country and that its removal therefrom is quintessential,” the High Court said, according to The Indian Express.
The court said several Union government employees’ aspirations of “serving the country in many ways, therefore, got diminished in these five decades because of this ban, which got removed only when it was brought to the notice of this court vide the present proceedings”.
The comments were made by a bench of Justices Sushruta Arvind Dharmadhikari and Gajendra Singh while disposing of a petition by Purushottam Gupta, a retired Union government employee. Gupta had moved the court in September challenging the ban.
The plea was disposed of as the Centre, earlier this month, lifted a 58-year-old ban on government employees being members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindutva group, is the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. It has been banned three times since Independence. Critics say it promotes Hindu supremacy and...
