Rush Hour: PM Modi, Congress spar about RSS legacy, singer Zubeen Garg’s manager arrested & more

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that several members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, including founder KB Hedgewar, went to jail during the struggle for independence. However, the Congress accused Modi of making false claims and said that, on the contrary, the Hindutva organisation collaborated with the British during the Quit India movement.

At an event marking the centenary of the RSS, the prime minister said that the RSS’s 100-year journey was “an extraordinary example of sacrifice, selfless service, nation-building and discipline”.

The RSS is the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Critics have accused it of promoting Hindu supremacy and intolerance toward minorities.

On Wednesday too, the Congress said that the RSS “divides the country” and alleged that its hands were also “stained with the blood of Mahatma Gandhi”.

Nathuram Godse, who shot Gandhi dead in 1948, had been a member of the RSS, though the organisation claimed that he had left it long before the assassination. Read on.

The Assam Police arrested singer Zubeen Garg’s manager Siddhartha Sharma and North East India Festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta more than ten days after the musician drowned during a yacht...

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