[Marxistindia] Postage Stamp on RSS: Insult to the Constitution of India

[news from the cpi(m)]

October 01, 2025

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

Postage Stamp on RSS: Insult to the Constitution of India

 

The release of a postage stamp and a 100 rupee coin by the Prime Minister to
celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the RSS is a grave injury
and insult to the Constitution of India which the RSS has never accepted. It
is highly objectionable that an official coin should replicate the "Bharat
Mata" image of a Hindu goddess promoted by the RSS as a symbol of its
sectarian concept of a Hindutva Rashtra. The postage stamp showing uniformed
RSS volunteers at the 1963 Republic Day parade too falsifies history. This
is based on the lie that Nehru invited the RSS to participate in the 1963
Republic Day parade as recognition of its patriotism during the Indo-China
war when it has been shown through evidence that the 1963 republic day
parade was essentially a huge gathering of more than one lakh citizens. The
presence of uniformed RSS volunteers if at all, was unreported and
incidental.

 

This entire exercise is to whitewash the shameful role of the RSS which was
not just distant from the freedom struggle but actually strengthened the
British strategy of divide and rule, thus seeking to weaken the unity of the
people of India which was a crucial component of the struggle against
colonial rule. The history of independent India has seen the worst communal
violence in which the role of the RSS has been detailed in numerous reports
of official commissions of inquiry. Today it is the RSS and its Parivar who
continue to target minority communities and also marginalized sections of
society through the promotion of manuvadi ideologies. This is the reality of
the history of the RSS that the Prime Minister seeks to conceal, by misusing
his position. In doing so, he has lowered the dignity of the constitutional
position he holds.

 

 

Muralidharan

(For CPI(M) Central Committee Office)

 

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