meanwhile in the rss shakhas, india's national flag is not raised
[1]...
why were they arrested by nagpur police in the first place?? is nagpur police the local state side of rss??
okay, that differs a just a little bit from this
[2] article from 2014...
so rss only raised the national flag at its national headquarters in nagpur in
2014 only after the precedent of those three activists forcibly raising it at a rss office in
2001 in nagpur itself, yet rss and other groups of the sangh ( old and new ) created the "idgah maidan controvery" ( coercion and riots really ) in hubli city in karnataka in
1994 when they forcibly wanted to raise the national flag in the central idgah ( muslim festival prayer structure and ground ) there... this was just the sangh's attempt to put fear into muslims soon after the babri masjid demolition and the subsequent rampage of the sangh throughout india... here
[3] are some details of the hubli incidents and here
[4] is the statement on that issue by noted writer, playwright, film actor and director, girish karnad, who belongs to that region.
offences?? when that muslim/otherwise group in the bombay cinema hall chose not to stand for the national anthem, sanghi goons in the cinema hall and their vile nationalist supporters there almost lynched that group yet here is the sangh's primary group, rss, getting the nagpur police to arrest three activists who raised the national flag at rss headquarters where it had been raised only twice.
now i, a socialist, am not the one to quibble about someone not standing for india's current national anthem or not saluting india's current flag but surely when rss accuses others being "anti national" ( whatever that means ), some technical points can be raised against rss too.
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[1]
Activists, who forcibly hoisted tri-colour at RSS premises, freed - Firstpost
[2]
Tri-colour hoisted at RSS HQ after 52 yrs | Kractivism
[3]
The Idgah Controversy
[4]
SAHMAT Statement on The Idgah Maidan controversy in Karnataka