Overview
- The RTI response states the Ministry of Culture granted ₹63 lakh for the Sanatan Rashtra Shankhnad Mahotsava at Bharat Mandapam in Delhi.
- The ministry described the funding purpose as marking 150 years of the national song Vande Mataram, according to the RTI reply.
- Congress alleges speakers at the event targeted Muslims as “infiltrators” and discussed conversion methods.
- The party says Union ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Shripad Naik and Sanjay Seth, as well as Delhi minister Kapil Mishra, attended the programme.
- Citing probes of Sanatan Sanstha in the Gauri Lankesh and M. M. Kalburgi murders, Congress demanded accountability and preventive hate‑speech legislation, while noting no formal response from the Culture Ministry.