Islamophobic Remarks :

Since March 2021, Dattatreya Hosabale has served as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)’s general secretary. For fifteen years, he served as the general secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student group affiliated with the RSS.

In addition, he was a founding trustee of the India Policy Foundation, a research group headed by the RSS.

The RSS, commonly referred to as the Sangh, was outlawed three times in India following independence. It was founded in 1925. Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, the group was first banned on charges of arranging the national hero’s death.

A persistent campaign to undermine India’s secular foundations and transform it into a Hindu authoritarian state where minorities are treated as second-class citizens has seen the RSS directly coordinate anti-Christian and anti-Muslim pogroms and incite terror attacks. Numerous acts of mass murder, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, forced conversions, and other types of violence against religious minorities in India have been linked to its members and related organizations. The leaders of the RSS have publicly stated their intention to “wipe off” Christianity and Islam from India. They also support the idea that Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism are just branches of Hinduism and should not be given their own religious identities.

Hosabale is one of the well-known proponents of the conspiracy theory known as “love jihad,” which holds that Muslims are persecuted for dating people of different religions.

He believes that Muslims are Hindus, just like other leaders of the RSS.

Hindu is a “rashtravachak” word in the Sangh. In Bharat, there is just one DNA, and it is called Hindu DNA. Hindutva is an identity, and although it is a diverse notion, some who identify as secular have promoted it as communal.

Prior to its centennial celebrations in 2025, RSS has set a goal to open a minimum of one shakha, or unit, in each Mandal, or grouping of ten to twelve villages, under his direction.

Sources :

Dattatreya Hosabale: ‘Secularism in India has been anti-Hindu’

https://openthemagazine.com/columns/open-conversation/dattatreya-hosabale-secularism-in-india-has-been-anti-hindu/embed/#?secret=xg8gvYoH0l

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/bengaluru-news/rss-supports-law-against-love-jihad-says-hosabale-101616272333676.html

https://www.eastmojo.com/national-news/2021/02/27/india-has-one-dna-it-is-hindu-rss-leader