RSS a ‘traitor’ entity: Congress dismisses Modi’s freedom struggle claim

The Congress on Wednesday dismissed PM Narendra Modi’s assertion that RSS leaders had gone to jail during the Independence movement. The party further alleged that the organisation had instead collaborated with the British to suppress the Quit India Movement of 1942.In a post on X, the party said: “The RSS is an organisation that divides the country. At the time of Independence, its leaders neither went to jail nor were ever banned by the British. During the Quit India Movement, when the entire nation was filling the jails, the RSS was helping the British crush the uprising.”

The party alleged that not a single RSS leader was imprisoned during the freedom struggle, while revolutionaries such as Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad were branded as anarchists by the Sangh an