Over 1000 Americans Urge State Department to Deny Visa to RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat as Madison Square Garden Event Nears

'In deep opposition to, but...': Zohran Mamdani on Mohan Bhagwat’s upcoming RSS rally in New York

Zohran Mamdani stressed his opposition to the rally but pointed out that the city’s government likely did not have the jurisdiction to cancel a private event.

Mohan Bhagwat, the RSS’ supremo to lead 'Universal Oneness Celebrations' in New York!

According to press reports the supremo of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Mohan Bhagwat will address an estimated 5,000-plus Indian-Americans at Madison Square Garden in New York City on August 29, 2026. The renowned conscience- keeper of democratic-secular-egalitarian values in USA, Pieter Friedrich has rightly reminded us that it was in 1939 that Nazis had filled the same Madison Square Garden in New York under the façade of ‘Americanis…

Mapping the Coalitions That Mobilized Before Mohan Bhagwat Landed in America

Image courtesy: X.Com I.  Introduction No religion appears anywhere in India’s Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026. That has not stopped five months of claims that it amounts to one: a US congressman called it “a clear attack against Christians,” a federal commission renewed its case for sanctions against India’s largest Hindu volunteer organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, and Canadian civil society split into open a…

Over 1000 Americans Urge State Department to Deny Visa to RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat as Madison Square Garden Event Nears

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 23, 2026) — Over 1,000 people from across the United States have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging him to deny or revoke the U.S. visa issued to Mohan Bhagwat, leader of the Indian Hindu supremacist paramilitary organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and to cancel his scheduled August 29 appearance at the Madison Square Garden.  The letters follow widespread public opposition to Bhagwat’s event si…