Responding to an ongoing debate over why Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh is not formally registered, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat argued that “many things are not registered — even Hindu Dharma is not registered.”

Speaking at an event in Bengaluru, Bhagwat cited three instances when RSS was banned in the past as proof of the government’s acknowledgment of its existence. “If we were not there, whom did they ban?” he remarked.

Bhagwat also cited the three times the RSS has been banned in the past, “hence the government has recognised us”. “If we were not there, whom did they ban?” argued Bhagwat, who leads the umbrella organisation that's the parent body of the ruling BJP, and from which PM Narendra Modi started his public engagement career before moving to fulltime politics.

He was responding

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