Bengaluru: Karnataka IT/BT Minister Priyank Kharge claimed that he was receiving “calls filled with threats, intimidation and the filthiest abuse” after he called for a ban on the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) from using government premises for its activities.

“For the past two days, my phone hasn’t stopped ringing. Calls filled with threats, intimidation and the filthiest abuse directed at me and my family, simply because I dared to question and restrain RSS activities in government schools, colleges and public institutions,” Priyank said in a tweet.

“But I’m neither shaken nor surprised. When the RSS didn’t spare Mahatma Gandhi or Babasaheb Ambedkar, why would they spare me?” Priyank, the son of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, said.

On October 4, Priyank w

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