New Delhi, Oct 1: 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, the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has said in a statement.

“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,” said the CPI (M) Polit Bureau statement.

It said 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 it

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