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Maharashtra polls: Ulema Board extends conditional support to MVA candidates, demands ban on RSS, ₹1,000 crore for Waqf, 10% reservation for Muslims and more

OpIndia Staff - 9 November, 2024

All India Ulema Board has extended its support to the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance led by the Congress party in the Maharashtra assembly elections

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‘Ban on govt officials joining RSS was arbitrary and without material evidence’: Here’s what MP HC said while lamenting over the five-decade-old ban

Shraddha Pandey - 26 July, 2024

The Madhya Pradesh HC lamented that it took five decades for the Centre to rectify the mistake of banning an internationally famed organisation like RSS.

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Modi govt withdraws 1966 memorandum barring govt servants from participating in RSS activities: Here is how RSS was officially persecuted for years

Shraddha Pandey - 22 July, 2024

Notably, the ban on government employees participating in Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activities was imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1966. The Congress government's 1966 decision to ban government employees from partaking in activities of the RSS was a move rooted in political expediency rather than genuine concern for the public interest. The ban sought to stifle the influence of a prominent organization that ideologically opposed the Congress party.