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US Body Seeks Sanctions On RSS, RAW USCIRF has recommended sanctions on RAW and RSS, again flagging India as a “Country of Particular Concern.” Govt rejects report as biased; Congress cites it to target RSS, intensifying the political row. | Noorail Khan

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A must watch video on the opaque status and funding of RSS and why its decision to hire lobbyists in the US poses risks. Pooja Prasanna TheNewsMinute Dhanya Rajendran ▪️ 𝐑𝐒𝐒 𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐋𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐘 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐌𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐔𝐒 • January 16, 2025: Squire Patton Boggs, registered as a lobbying firm for RSS • Lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs, registered for RSS indirectly through One Plus Strategies • January - September 2025: Squire Patton Boggs was paid $330,000 • Firm registered this under Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) and not through Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) • LDA less transparent. FARA is stricter - needs disclosures of all emails, calls, meetings, transactions • RSS has denied hiring any lobbying firm in the US • June 2025 RSS event: Bob Shuster, founder of One Plus Strategies and Bradford Ellison, an Associate at Squire Patton were present • Historian Audrey Truschke has confirmed that she was contacted by lobbyists to gather information • Lobbyists told the historian that they were retained by RSS to ‘educate law makers’ • Since RSS has denied retaining the lobbying firms, will they take legal action against these firms for pretending to representing them? ▪️𝐑𝐒𝐒: 𝐎𝐏𝐀𝐐𝐔𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒 • Not registered in India since its foundation in 1925 • It’s not a society, not a trust, not an NGO, not a company • Recently Mohan Bhagwat said RSS is a body of individuals • Body of Individuals (BOI), incorporated or not is treated as a person under Income Tax Act of 1961 • RSS has changed identities in the past. Before Income Tax Dept it claimed to be a charitable institution, before the Charity Commissioner it called itself a political institution, it has claimed to be a cultural and educational institutional, and very recently Bhagwat claimed RSS is a body of individuals ▪️𝐑𝐒𝐒 𝐌𝐔𝐑𝐊𝐘 𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 • In 1970s when income tax raised a demand RSS said it wasn’t earning any profit but was getting money through Guru Dakshina (donations) • But if RSS is a Body of Individuals whose source of revenue is Guru Dakshina how did it manage to hire a US lobbyist and send money overseas? • Former Secy, E.A.S. Sarma has urged CBDT and ED to probe RSS's lobbying in US • How can RSS which is not registered in India and is funded by donations or "Guru Dakshina" can pay $330,000 for lobbying in the US • If RSS denies hiring lobbying firms then is a foreign entity impersonating the RSS? • Or is the RSS is operating abroad financially without any disclosures? ▪️𝐑𝐒𝐒 𝐋𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐘𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐔𝐒 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐊𝐘 • What exactly are lobbyists hired by RSS doing? • When govt officials lobby there is diplomacy, when a political party lobbies there is political influence • But when an unregistered ideological organisation tied to the ruling party lobbies abroad it poses risks • There is a risk that US lawmakers will have a biased view and understanding of Indian politics, minority rights, democratic practices through the prism of the RSS

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Four days after Ram Madhav refused to answer for the RSS’s record, Hudson Institute's Walter Russell Mead also refused. I asked the Distinguished Fellow who hosted RSS leader Hosabale on April 23 about USCIRF’s sanctions recommendation, the India Foundation’s funding of his India travel, and his role in laundering the RSS. His answer to every question: “No comment.” On April 27, 2026, I encountered Walter Russell Mead leaving a Washington restaurant. Four days earlier, he had hosted Dattatreya Hosabale, the General Secretary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, in a fireside chat on Hudson’s stage. The conference convened fifty days after the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended the RSS for US sanctions. I asked Mead, on camera, about his role in hosting the RSS leadership. I asked him whether he was aware of the documented record of RSS-implicated violence against Christians, Muslims, and other religious minorities. I asked him whether he was aware of the USCIRF sanctions recommendation. I asked him how he felt about laundering and whitewashing the RSS for an American audience. I asked him whether the India Foundation — Hudson’s institutional partner since 2023 — pays for his trips to India. I asked him how long his relationship with Ram Madhav has lasted. I asked him whether it bothers his conscience to platform an organization whose members have been accused of assassinating Mahatma Gandhi, burning Christians alive, and gang-raping Muslim women. Mead’s response to every question: “No comment.” Walter Russell Mead is the Distinguished Fellow at Hudson Institute who moderated Hosabale’s April 23 fireside chat without challenging a single claim Hosabale made. He has written favorably about India and the BJP government in The Wall Street Journal for seven years. He has traveled to India under India Foundation hosting, including a November 2024 Hudson-India Foundation delegation to Tawang documented in his own WSJ column. On October 7, 2025, Narendra Modi personally hosted Mead at his residence in New Delhi. Asked directly about these institutional facts, Mead chose silence. Hudson Institute is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. Its Distinguished Fellow declines to answer questions about hosting a foreign paramilitary’s leadership fifty days after USCIRF recommended that paramilitary for sanctions. He declines to answer questions about whether his Indian travel is funded by an Indian Foundation tied to the BJP and to India’s National Security Adviser. He declines to answer questions about his role in giving the RSS Washington’s policy stage. The April 23 conference was the test of whether anyone would do their job. Mead’s “no comment” is the answer.

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