Mohan Bhagwat Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat has defended the organisation’s lack of formal registration, arguing that “many things are not registered — even Hindu Dharma is not registered.” Speaking at an event in Bengaluru, Bhagwat cited three instances when RSS was banned in the past as proof of the government’s acknowledgment of its existence. “If we were not there, whom did they ban?” he remarked. Bhagwat, who leads the ideological parent body of the ruling BJP, said the RSS was founded in 1925 during British rule, and registering it with the colonial administration was never necessary. After Independence, he added, the government did not mandate such registration. Addressing concerns about the group’s tax exemption, Bhagwat stated that both the income tax

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