Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday, i.e., November 9, responded to an ongoing debate over why the organisation, the ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is not formally registered. "Many things are not registered. Even Hindu dharma (religion) is not registered,” Bhagwat has said, as per news agency PTI.

Recalling the three times the RSS has been banned in the past, Bhagwat said, "Hence the government has recognised us; If we were not there, whom did they ban?" The RSS Chief further argued, "Should we have registered RSS with British government as it was established in 1925?"

At the time of the independence in 1947, Bhagwat said, “The government did not make it compulsory to register. Mohan Bhagwat also addressed the organisation's tax stat

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