Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday demanded a ban on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological front of the ruling BJP, invoking the country’s first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

Addressing a press conference on the ocassion of Patel’s 150th birth anniversary, he said Patel had always maintained that RSS speeches were filled with “poison of communalism”.

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“It was because of the RSS that Gandhiji was assassinated,” the Congress President stated.

Expressing his personal opinion, Kharge asserted that the RSS should be banned in the country.

Slamming the saffron party, he said the very people who assassinated the Mahatma are today questioning the Congress.

Emphasizing that Patel had laid the foundati

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