{"id":59344,"date":"2020-02-24T20:42:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=59344"},"modified":"2020-02-24T20:43:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:13:27","slug":"mohan-bhagwat-did-not-say-nationalism-means-hitler-fascism-media-misreports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mohan-bhagwat-did-not-say-nationalism-means-hitler-fascism-media-misreports\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohan Bhagwat did not say nationalism means Hitler, fascism – Media misreports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief, Mohan Bhagwat, was at Mukherjee University, Ranchi on February 19. Since then, several media outlets<\/a> have reported that Bhagwat said, “Avoid using the word ‘nationalism’, as it is derived from Hitler or Nazi.”<\/p>\n

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The report was first published by ANI<\/em><\/a> (archive link<\/a>) which was later picked up by The Quint<\/a><\/em> (archive link<\/a>), NDTV<\/a><\/em> (archive link<\/a>) and Economic Times<\/em><\/a> (archive link<\/a>). Times of India<\/em><\/a> (archive link<\/a>) attributes the report to\u00a0Press Trust of India (PTI)<\/em>, while The Hindu<\/a><\/em> (archive link<\/a>) sourced the report from PTI<\/em> and IAN<\/em>S.<\/p>\n

India Today<\/a><\/em> (archive link<\/a>) and Hindustan Times<\/em><\/a> (archive link)<\/a> have published independent reports.<\/p>\n

NDTV<\/em> also covered Bhagwat’s speech on TV claiming that he said nationalism implies nazism.<\/p>\n