Fact Check: Has RSS Extended Support To INDIA Bloc For 2024 General Polls?

In the viral video, a person named Janardhan Moon says that to defeat the BJP, they have pledged their support to the INDIA bloc.

With not even a month left for Lok Sabha elections 2024, a video showing a press conference under the banner of one 'Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh' is circulating on social media. The video claims that the Bharatiya Janata Party's parent organization, RSS, has extended its support to the multi-party Opposition coalition, Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), for the upcoming general elections. After cursing #RSS for more than 75 years, #Congress and INDI Alliance have come up with their own 'FAKE RSS' to confuse votersA desperate attempt?#FakeRSS_Alertpic.twitter.com/UCdAxEpbdY RSS के नाम से कुछ लोग फर्जी संगठन बनाकर खुद को और अपने वामपंथी सहयोगियों को धोखा दे सकते है समाज को नहीं।संघ 1925 से देश और फिर दुनिया भर में कार्य कर रहा है। इनका दावा खोखला और राजनीतिक षड्यंत्र से प्रेरित है, जनार्दन मून और उसके गिरोह राष्ट्र विरोधी और मोदी विरोधियो के इशारे… pic.twitter.com/TicBRuN4Ik

In the viral video, a person named Janardhan Moon says that to defeat the BJP, they have pledged their support to the INDIA bloc. The video has been shared on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), with an X post gaining over 300,000 views and 6,600 likes at the time of writing. An archived version of one such post can be accessed here.

However, the claim is misleading. The video doesn't show the BJP's ideological parent, the RSS, but a namesake organization, which is different from the body founded by Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in September 1925.