Mohan Bhagwat comparing Hinduism with RSS is condemnable: Manjunath Bhandari

Mangalore Today News Network

It is condemnable to compare Hinduism — a faith with thousands of years of history — with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which is barely a hundred years old, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee working president and MLC Manjunath Bhandari has said.

Reacting to the recent nationwide discussion over the question, ’Why isn’t the RSS registered?’ Bhandari criticised RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s reply that “Even Hinduism is not registered.”

He said, “Such a statement is condemnable and a grave insult to Hinduism, which all of us represent.”

“By comparing Hinduism — a faith whose core philosophy is unity in diversity — to an unregistered organisation or association, Bhagwat has demeaned it,” he said.

“Hinduism has, for thousands of years, been an integral