NEW DELHI: The ministry of exterior affairs on Friday hit again at america Fee on Worldwide Spiritual Freedom after it urged Washington to impose sanctions on members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, calling the physique “biased” and missing credibility.In a bi-weekly press briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal mentioned such organisations don’t have any credibility and function to hawk their very own agenda.“The organisation you’re speaking about is understood to everybody as a biased organisation, and for a few years, it has been making deceptive and provocative statements about India,” Jaiswal mentioned.“I’d say that we should always steer clear of such organisations as a result of they peddle their very own agenda and, on the identical time, don’t have any credibility,” he added.This comes days after USCIRF urged the US authorities to impose sanctions on RSS members, somewhat than honouring them with “high-level conferences.”In a publish on X, the fee shared remarks from Asif Mahmood, a Pakistani-American doctor who serves as its chair, and Commissioner Gene Mills.
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Mahmood described the RSS, the ideological guardian of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as an umbrella organisation, alleging that its affiliated teams had carried out assaults on non secular minorities.Mills, in the meantime, mentioned RSS leaders, even when affiliated with the Indian authorities, shouldn’t be given high-level conferences or diplomatic courtesies. As a substitute, he urged Washington to deal with imposing sanctions on RSS members discovered liable for violations of freedom of faith or perception.The assertion got here forward of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s scheduled go to to america, Canada, and the UK, starting August 25.
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