Govt order allowing staff to join Sangh hints at resetting RSS-BJP ties

A government order issued discreetly earlier this month removes the bar on its employees from associating with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)

A government order issued discreetly earlier this month, removing the bar on its employees from associating with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological mentor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is an indication of ties between the Sangh Parivaar and the party being recalibrated following a period when some chill had set in. There have been reports of a strain between the two even before the summer’s Lok Sabha polls, which saw the BJP emerge as the single largest

RSS disassociates itself from electoral politics, but its cadre is known to drum up support for BJP on ideological issues. (PTI)