Opposition parties on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for glorifying the RSS and releasing a commemorative postal stamp and a Rs 100 coin to mark the organisation’s centenary, calling it an “insult to the Constitution”.

The Congress hit out at the PM for his statement that RSS leaders went to jail during the freedom struggle, claiming that RSS leaders had actually helped the British suppress the Quit India Movement.

“RSS, an organisation that divides the country… At the time of independence, its leaders neither went to jail nor were ever banned by the British,” said the Congress in a post on X.

“A slogan about the RSS’s betrayal was on everyone’s lips… Those who were patriots went to fight, those who were traitors joined the Sangh,” said the post.

The party said the

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