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The Sangh Parivar is a great threat to all minorities living in India,
as well as the Indian nation as a whole, because it does not restrict itself

to carrying on the group struggle with “hot” slogans, but has also carries
out bloody assassinations, killings and arson attacks. It is estimated that
the Sangh Parivar is responsible for more than 20,000 deaths in the coun-
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try since the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The escalation of vio-
lent attacks carried out by the radical nationalist movement has drawn
the criticism of Indian intellectuals too. M. Mohanty, of the Delhi
University says: “Increasing intolerance among the Hindu fundamental-
ist organizations, which pose a grave threat to democracy, are an indi-

cation of the rise of fascist forces in India”, “What happened with
European fascism is now happening with Hindus,” he told
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FASCIST ORGANIZATIONS ACHIEVE POWER IN INDIA
There are a great number of political parties, movements and orga-
nizations with racist tendencies. The activities of the neo-Nazis in
Germany, the skinheads of England, the Ku Klux Klan in the USA and

many other fascist organizations around the world are well known, but
the situation in India is altogether different, because in India, a racist or-
ganization or, in one word, the Sangh Parivar, is capable of attaining
power. This rule is not limited to the government but controls the entire
country including the opposition, the military and the bureaucracy. Dr.
Partha Banerjee spent fifteen years in a Shakha, the grass roots organi-
zation of radical Hindu nationalism, and related his experiences as an
“ex-militant” in his interesting book In the Belly of the Beast: The Hindu

Supremacist RSS and BJP of India—An Insider’s Story. In the first few years
he spent in the Shakha, he experienced it as a place where one played with
his friends and sang songs. His subsequent feelings now are as follows:

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