Bengaluru: Bharat is a “Hindu Rashtra” where “Hindus are responsible” for the nation, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat said on Saturday, even as he underlined the need for harmony, which the national organisation wants to promote in its expansionist future.

Bhagwat was delivering a lecture here on the RSS, which is celebrating its centenary.

“Hindus are responsible for Bharat. What’s our country? It’s not the British who gave us nationhood. We’re an ancient nationhood,” Bhagwat said. “We have a core culture and whatever description used for it leads to the word Hindu,” he said.

“Muslims and Christians are also descendants of the same ancestors. They either don’t know this or are made to forget it,” Bhagwat said.

“I find Christians and Muslims who have pres

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