RSS leader Sadhvi Prachi makes incendiary remarks against Muslims, Christians at centenary event

ISLAMABAD: A rights group has called out the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for openly advocating an "ideological war" against Muslims and Christians.

The group, Hindutva Watch, highlighted that RSS leader Sadhvi Prachi made threatening remarks against both communities at a "Virat Hindu Sammelan" (great Hindu convention). The event was part of the centenary celebrations of the RSS, the extremist ideological arm of the ruling BJP.

Hindutva leader Sadhvi Prachi claimed that both Muslims and Christians were engaged in campaigns to convert Hindus.

The centenary has received high-level political visibility, including official government communications around commemorative programs.

In a video from the convention, Prachi is heard making derogatory references to Muslims, saying she could not see any "jaali dar topi wale" in the crowd—a jibe at Muslim skullcaps—while criticizing those she claimed refuse to say "Vande Mataram."

She framed the situation as an "ideological war" against people who, she alleged, "divided India" and "created 56 countries." She also claimed they are now carrying out "love jihad" and converting Dalits through inducements.

Prachi also targeted Christian institutions, accusing convent schools of "mind-washing" and alleging they offer financial incentives to poor families in exchange for changing religion declarations on admission forms.

The claims were made without evidence and mirror a broader pattern of polarizing rhetoric regularly used by Hindutva-aligned speakers.

Rights advocates argue that such speeches are not merely rhetorical: they help normalize suspicion toward minorities and can increase real-world vulnerability. Muslims, they say, are portrayed as disloyal, infiltrative, or culturally incompatible.

In recent years, civil-society monitors have repeatedly warned that the public mainstreaming of anti-minority narratives contributes to a climate in which harassment, discriminatory profiling, and mob intimidation become easier to justify.

Prachi's remarks come at a politically charged moment, as the RSS centenary program expands its public footprint through high-visibility gatherings across India.