Overview
- At a Bengaluru event, Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge alleged the RSS runs a roughly 2,500‑group network, including affiliates in the US and UK, and claimed funds collected as ‘Guru Dakshina’ amount to money laundering.
- Kharge questioned the RSS’s unregistered status and tax transparency and vowed to push for its registration under law, citing Mohan Bhagwat’s description of the RSS as a ‘body of individuals.’
- Reports note Kharge presented no public evidence to support the laundering claim, and the RSS had not issued an immediate response addressing the allegation.
- Senior BJP figures such as B.Y. Vijayendra, R. Ashoka and national spokespeople, along with the VHP, rebuked Kharge and the Congress, framing his remarks as politically motivated and insulting to the RSS.
- No investigative or legal action has been announced, and the clash extends earlier Karnataka flashpoints involving RSS activities on public premises and a Chittapur march that proceeded after a High Court intervention.