The Congress on Thursday (November 13) accused the RSS of engaging "one of Pakistan's official lobbying arms" to further its interests in the US. The party’s general secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, in a post on X alleged that this was not the first time the RSS has "betrayed national interest".

Ramesh pointed out that recently, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had admitted that the RSS was not a registered organisation and does not pay taxes.

"Now, we learn that the RSS has spent a significant amount of money to engage one of Pakistan’s official lobbying arms - the American law firm Squire Patton Boggs (SPB) - to espouse its interests in the US," Ramesh alleged on X.

‘Betrayed freedom movement’

"This is hardly the first time that the RSS -- with its long tradition of betra

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