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Priyank Kharge rejects Santhosh’s RSS role claim in Hyderabad integration
Priyank Kharge rejects Santhosh’s RSS role claim in Hyderabad integration
Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge has rejected BJP leader B L Santhosh’s claim that RSS workers protected his family from Razakars during the integration of Hyderabad with India. Kharge said the people…
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Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge has rejected BJP leader B L Santhosh’s claim that RSS workers protected his family from Razakars during the integration of Hyderabad with India. Kharge said the people of the region were protected by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru and the Indian Army. He pointed to Operation Polo, the 1948 military action that integrated Hyderabad with India.
Santhosh had said RSS workers confronted Razakars and protected Hindus during Partition, claiming the Kharge family fled attacks. Priyank Kharge disputed this and accused the RSS of fuelling communal tensions. He also challenged Santhosh’s references to V D Savarkar and Subhas Chandra Bose’s INA. Santhosh defended the RSS and said its work did not depend on formal registration.
The Indian Opinion
The argument reduces a complex period of violence and integration to competing organisational claims. Santhosh’s account should not erase the documented role of the Indian Army and the political leadership behind Operation Polo. Kharge’s counterattack also makes broad allegations about the RSS without offering evidence in this exchange. The useful test is narrower: what contemporaneous records establish about RSS activity in the affected districts in 1947 and 1948?
Source: newindianexpress.com
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