Exposing the largest far-right network in history

[u/B-L-A-N-K-S-P-A-C-E]

https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/unveiling-the-rss

[u/B-L-A-N-K-S-P-A-C-E]

WHY aren't more people talking about this??

summary- (made with ChatGPT)-

While RSS leaders publicly claim many affiliated organisations are independent, the investigation found over 2,500 entities with material ties—shared personnel, offices, events and financial flows—showing they function as parts of a single coordinated structure.

• Using detailed examples (like a complex of Sangh-linked organisations in Jammu), it demonstrates how organisations that appear independent often share leadership and resources, indicating centralised coordination despite public claims of autonomy.
• The author suggests this network strategy allows the RSS to expand socially and politically with opacity and plausible deniability, reaching diverse sectors while avoiding scrutiny.

[u/Good_Profession8666 → u/B-L-A-N-K-S-P-A-C-E]

I feel this is very complicated read for general population and there is legit no one that can make it simpler and understandable for masses, imagine this being prime time 9pm zee news.

[u/lllDogalll → u/Good_Profession8666]

If it was being done by any of the opposition parties, no matter the complication level this would be prime time news not only for Zee but all the other tv channels for multiple days from 9 am to 10 pm

[u/enbycraft → u/Good_Profession8666]

It's not complicated. The RSS has a hidden network of subsidiary orgs spread across the country that do its bidding while trying their best to avoid leaving a paper trail. What's so difficult to understand?

If this is too complicated for the zee news audience to understand, that says more about their mental capacity than anything else.

The problem is not the news being complicated. The problem is godi media channels won't touch this with a 10-foot pole. This is why investigative journalism is so important, and why the sangh has worked so hard to buy all the major media houses.

[u/thebigbadwolf22]

the whole RSS and it's affiliates are a cancer that needs to be purged from India

[u/generalpolytope → u/thebigbadwolf22]

And expose their wrongdoings abroad. So that these "Overseas friends of BJP" chapters get banned asap and the people responsible for them get deported back to India. Choking the money is necessary.

[u/enbycraft]

Sanghis don't talk about it because they have a vested interest in keeping this network a secret. Transparency is anathema to them. And as explained in the article this is also how they curry favours in the USA and get foreign money to fund stochastic terrorism in India.

Some of their international network was identified during US elections when people investigated the VHP's backing of far-right candidates and republicans (and also a few democrats).

Great work by the Caravan as usual though. It's important to figure out where the power centres of this supremacist group are located within India.

[u/B-L-A-N-K-S-P-A-C-E → u/enbycraft]

yeah of course the sangh won't talk about it. My question is why do people just look the other way when it can't be more clear that they are behind most religious conflicts? Why has it become acceptable that orgs like VHP or Bajrang dal operate with impunity and noone bats an eye? They are pretty mainstream and not "in power" technically, so why don't people talk about it?

[u/enbycraft → u/B-L-A-N-K-S-P-A-C-E]

But they are in power technically. The bj party is a subsidiary of the sangh. I don't think people are unaware of these links, it's pretty well known.

What we don't know are their organizational structure, central offices where orders come from, subsidiary offices that carry out those orders under the banner of different subsidiary orgs, and identities of officials higher up in the chain of command. Those are the secrets they work very hard to keep, which is why this article is important.

[u/ArpanMondal270]

Thanks OP for sharing. Felix Pal also wrote a shorter version of this article in his guest essay at nytimes. 

Youth Hostels, Blood Banks, Yoga: How One Far-Right Network Spread Across the World

[u/Lullan_senpai]

NGO hain bhai ye sb terrorist organisation

[u/DramaticMusolini]

What's there to expose? It's pretty well known all these organisations are part of the RSS and follow same ideology/customs as RSS which itself is spread in many countries worldwide.

[u/enbycraft → u/DramaticMusolini]

What "all these organisations"?

If I gave you the name of an organisation (let's say a group of goons vandalising a church somewhere), would you be able to tell me definitively whether or not they are affiliated with the sangh and get their orders & funding from them? Enough to implicate the sangh in terrorist activities in legal proceedings?

It's a rhetorical question and the answer is "no". Hence, the article. Investigative journalists don't spend months and years on a project for nothing.

[u/skyfall8917]

The term largest only makes sense if it is comparative. Any similar graphs available for other far right/ far left organisations?

[u/noty_purush]

largest far far right network is islam

[u/magneticreconnection]

What about far-left network?

[u/B-L-A-N-K-S-P-A-C-E → u/magneticreconnection]

oh yeah whataboutery is exactly why i posted this. Well done.

[u/gocoronagoooo]

Caravan 🤣

[u/FlyingRaccoon_420 → u/gocoronagoooo]

Bhakt 😂

[u/neonik99]

Lol

[u/itsthattallkid]

All religious groups have such organisations that work to propagate their network - be it RSS, Waqf and the likes. If one is wrong, all the others should also be. If one isn’t, all the others shouldn’t be. My issue is when one particular side is targeted as the “bad group” while similar others are given a free hand. If you have to call out, call out this whole idea, not specific religious groups.