The Sangh Parivar’s Moral Collapse On Dharmasthala Horrors — A Call to the Conscience of India

For an umbrella of organisation that prides itself on being the moral guardian of Hindu society, the Sangh Parivar — including the RSS and its political arm, the BJP — stands today naked over the grotesque crimes emerging from the shadow of Dharmasthala. Their silence is not neutrality. It is criminality.

What we are witnessing is not a one-off scandal. These are systemic, long-standing patterns of rape, murder, coercion, and cover-up — protected by the unholy nexus of religious power, political protection, and judicial sluggishness. The numbers are staggering. The voices of survivors are stifled. The institutional impunity is chilling. And yet, the self-proclaimed custodians of Hindu culture look away.

Where is the RSS, with its shakhas claiming to inculcate moral discipline? Where is its righteous outrage now? Why hasn’t a single senior pracharak issued a statement, led a protest, demanded justice, or stood with the survivors of Dharmasthala’s horror? If the perpetrators wore skullcaps or bore Christian crosses, would the Sangh be so deathly silent?

Let us call this what it is: a caste-and-power-protected silence, carefully maintained to shield a multimillion-dollar religious-industrial empire. The family that runs Dharmasthala commands untouchable reverence in coastal Karnataka. Its financial interests intersect with powerful institutions —  micro finance institution,   colleges, trusts, and even courts. BJP and RSS leaders have bent over backward to appease them. RSS ideologues, who go berserk over interfaith marriages, shrink like cowards when it comes to confronting Dharmastala abuse.

Even as the state-ordered SIT probe begins unearthing chilling facts, several BJP heavyweights, have questioned the investigation itself. Instead of standing with the victims, they have echoed the lines of the accused empire. What message does this send to Hindu women? That their trauma is negotiable if the abuser dons saffron robes?

This is not about political partisanship. It’s about a society rotting from within because its self-proclaimed guardians refuse to clean their own house. The Sangh Parivar’s credibility on issues of women's dignity, Hindu ethics, and national character lies in shambles.

Let it be said: when you remain silent about hundreds of women brutalised under the watch of a revered Hindu institution, you lose the right to speak about Hindu dharma.

This is not merely a local scandal. It is a test of India’s soul. Either we expose and dismantle this poisonous immunity — no matter how holy its garb — or we watch the foundations of justice crumble under the weight of our cowardice.

The time has come for the public to demand accountability — not just from the Dharmasthala empire, but from every political and ideological group that stood by and watched this horror unfold. The truth must be louder than their silence. Because in this silence, women bled. Children were broken. And an entire society looked away.

Never again.