Muslims, Christians can join RSS but on one condition: Mohan Bhagwat

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said that people from all religions, including Muslims and Christians, can join the organisation, but as members of a unified Hindu society, setting aside religious separateness.

Responding to a question on whether Muslims are allowed in the RSS, Bhagwat said, “No Brahmin is allowed in Sangha. No other caste is allowed in Sangha. No Muslim is allowed, no Christian is allowed in the Sangha... Only Hindus are allowed.”

He, however, clarified that followers of all faiths are welcome to participate as long as they come “as sons of Bharat Mata.”

“So people with different denominations — Muslims, Christians — any denomination, can come to the Sangha but



keep your separateness out. Your speciality is welcome. But when you come inside Shakha, you come as a son of Bharat Mata, a member of this Hindu society,” he said.

Bhagwat added that the Sangh does not ask the religion or caste of anyone attending its daily shakhas. “Muslims come to Shakha, Christians come to Shakha, as all other castes from the routinely called Hindu society, they also come to Shakha. But we don’t take their count, and we don’t ask who they are. We are all sons of Bharat Mata. That is how Sangha works,” he said.

His remarks came during an in-house question-and-answer session organised by the RSS, where he also fielded queries on the organisation’s registration status, political leanings, and relationship with other faiths.