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Jabalpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale has wanted to know from Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge why the organisation should be banned in the country.

There should be a “reason to ban” the organisation that has been regularly engaging in nation building and has been accepted by the public for this work.

“There must be a reason behind the ban. What will be gained by banning an RSS that is engaged in nation-building? The public has already accepted the RSS,” Hosabale said during a press conference in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, following the organisation’s second day of the Akhil Bharatiya Karyakarni Mandal meet.

The meet was called by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Kachnar, to discuss the programmes to mark 100 years of the Sangh and discussing other national issues.

Kharge, on Friday, had called for a ban on the organisation, as he held the RSS and BJP responsible for the current state of law and order in India.

He had said that if Prime Minister Narendra Modi truly respects the views of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, then he should take the decision to ban the RSS, as the country’s first home minister has done.

“These are my personal views and I openly say that there should be one (a ban on the RSS). If PM respects the views presented by Vallabhbhai Patel, this should be done. All the wrongs in the country and all law and order issues here are due to BJP and RSS,” Kharge had said.

Earlier, the Congress president’s son and Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge had urged state chief minister Siddaramaiah to bar RSS activities in government schools, colleges, and state-owned temples, accusing the organisation of “brainwashing young minds” and promoting a “philosophy against the Constitution.”

A Panchayat Development Officer in Karnataka has also been suspended for participating in a RSS event.

Founded by Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in 1925, the RSS came under scrutiny and was initiay blamed for influencing Nathuram Godse, leading the organisation’s temporary ban. The ban was lifted Later after an investigation cleared the organisation of any direct involvement in the killing of Mahatma Gandhi.