NPR interviews leader of RSS, world’s largest right-wing group: NPR
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) volunteers participate within the Hindu nationalist organisation’s centenary celebrations at Reshimbagh Ground in Nagpur on October 2, 2025.
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The largest right-wing group on the planet is in India.
That group is an all-male, Hindu Nationalist group known as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. It’s higher recognized by its acronym, the RSS.
Its objective is to undo the founding fathers’ imaginative and prescient of India as a secular nation, dwelling to people with many faiths.
Some of its members and people of some of its sister organizations have been implicated in – or accused of – instigating assaults in opposition to India’s Muslim and Christian minorities. Famously, a former RSS member assassinated one of essentially the most well-known Indians in historical past, Mohandas Gandhi, in 1948.
Critics say Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities is hostile to Muslims particularly and borrows from the group’s Hindu nationalist ideology.
The leaders of the motion hardly ever discuss to the Western press, which is why it was shocking when a lobbyist representing one of these leaders requested NPR to arrange an interview.
The General Secretary of the RSS, kind of the second in command of the group, Dattatreya Hosabale, was in Washington DC this week for a chat on the conservative assume tank the Hudson Institute.
NPR’s Rob Schmitz spoke with Hosabale to study why he was within the nation’s capital, and why he was talking with the press.
Listen to the complete interview by clicking on the blue play button above.