Anandu Aji Suicide: Congress Seeks Probe Into Sexual Exploitation In RSS Shakhas, Camps

New Delhi; October 13, 2025: The Congress today sought a thorough investigation into the activities of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in view of the revelations made by Anandu Aji, a Kerala based RSS volunteer who died by suicide after alleging prolonged sexual exploitation, including rape, at RSS shakhas and training camps during his childhood.

Addressing a press conference at the AICC office here today, Chairman of the Media and Publicity Department Pawan Khera said that the RSS needs to be exposed, and what is happening behind the veil of its so-called value system and nationalism must be revealed to the whole nation.

Referring to the suicide of Anandu Aji after putting a post on a social media platform Instagram, the Congress leader said, it was a foolproof and conclusive confirmation of what was already known in public domain but was not openly discussed.

“There is dirt and sleaze behind the veil of the RSS and that veil needs to be taken off to show the true face of an organisation that claims to be the guardian of religion and nationalism”, he remarked, emphasising that it was important to expose the dark side of the organisation that works with utmost secrecy.

Khera expressed dismay at the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS leadership over such serious revelations.

He pointed out that the Prime Minister had said from the ramparts of the Red Fort that his government owed everything to the RSS. “Now is the time for the PM to speak”, he remarked.

The senior Congress leader expressed shock that the Kerala Police did not mention the RSS in the FIR, despite Anandu having clearly named the organisation. “What is the fear of the RSS that it has not been named in the FIR?” he asked.

Referring to the complete command and control the RSS exercises over everything in the BJP government at the Centre, Khera remarked, “This is the government of the RSS, by the RSS and for the RSS”.

He also questioned the celebrations marking the RSS’s hundred years of foundation, including the issuance of a postal stamp and a coin, in light of the grave and serious allegations of sexual exploitation of young kids who unsuspectingly join the RSS shakhas and its training camps.