Right Word I How Congress’ RSS Conspiracy Theory On Census Falls Apart

Jairam Ramesh says the demographic committee is "high level" only in its members' RSS affiliation.

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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has stitched a routine RSS meeting, a government committee and a rules amendment into a census conspiracy. The facts break every link — and the Congress’s own history with the Sangh tells a different story.

Create a false bogey and blame the RSS. The Congress’s general secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, did exactly that on October 17 in an official statement. Reacting to the Registrar General’s October 16 notification amending the Census Rules, 1990, he linked an RSS meeting in Belagavi, the demographic committee’s call for public inputs and the amendment to the Census rules. Without any evidence, he declared the result – “Rozgar Guarantee Yojana for thousands of RSS/BJP workers"- that would allegedly leave the Census “dangerously doctored".

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No document, name or number was offered as evidence.  His claim doesn’t stand the scrutiny of the facts.

Belagavi: A Routine Organisational Meeting

Ramesh speaks of a “big training camp" for cadres “on the single-point agenda of Census 2027". What met in Belagavi from July 10 to 12 was the RSS’s annual Akhil Bharatiya Prant Pracharak Baithak, held every July — in Delhi last year. It is one fixture in the Sangh’s annual calendar of national meetings. Its participants were the full-time pracharaks who run the Sangh’s 11 kshetras and 46 prants. This “big training camp," as alleged by Ramesh, was merely a routine organisational meeting attended by only 226 RSS functionaries in addition to the RSS top brass. Incidentally, it was not even a training camp; it was just a routine meeting whose agenda was published on rss.org on July 1: shakha expansion in the........

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