Hyderabad: AIMIM chief and Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of insulting the freedom struggle by praising the RSS during his Independence Day speech.
Posting on X, Owaisi called the remarks “an insult” because, he alleged, the RSS and its affiliates acted as “British foot soldiers” and never joined the fight for independence. He claimed the organisation hated Mahatma Gandhi more than it opposed colonial rule and rejected the inclusive nationalism that inspired freedom fighters.
Owaisi said Modi, as a former RSS worker, could have praised the group in Nagpur but should not have done so from the Red Fort. He argued that Hindutva ideology was exclusionary and opposed constitutional values. He warned that China posed the biggest external threat but “a greater danger” came from the “hate and division spread by the Sangh Parivar.”
Earlier, Modi had marked the RSS centenary in his address, calling it the “world’s largest non-government organisation” and lauding its “service, dedication, organisation and unparalleled discipline.” He said swayamsevaks had devoted themselves to character-building, nation-building, and national welfare for the past 100 years.
