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New Delhi: On August 29, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat addressed more than 5,000 American Hindus and non-resident Hindu Indians at Madison Square Garden at an event titled “One World One Humanity”.

Both the before and after timelines of the event have been especially dramatic.

The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) and allied community and faith organisations held a press conference in New York on August 25 to protest against Bhagwat’s event. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani also opposed the event publicly.

Now that the event has concluded, two religious leaders in the United States who appeared alongside Bhagwat at the event said that the organisers had not told them that the Hindutva leader would a part of the event.

In a social media post on September 2, Adriene Thorne, a minister of the Riverside Church, said that she was........

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