Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), confessed on Thursday that India couldn’t do much when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, claiming that even China remained uncommitted on the subject.
On Thursday evening, Bhagwat spoke at the end of a month-long training session for RSS volunteers in Nagpur, saying that if India were sufficiently powerful, it could have ended the war, but it can’t because its power is continuously growing, but it’s not complete.
“Why doesn’t China stop them? Because it can see something in this war. This war has enhanced security and economic issues for nations like India,” he said. He added, “We will have to further strengthen our efforts, and we will have to become powerful. If India had such power in its hands, then such an incident would not have come before the world.”
The RSS chairman also accused Western nations of providing guns to Ukraine just for the purpose of “testing their weapons.”
“Russia attacked Ukraine. It is being opposed. But nobody is ready to go to Ukraine and stop Russia because Russia has power and it threatens,” news agency ANI quoted Bhagwat as saying.
He slammed Western nations for ‘pitting’ India and Pakistan against one another in past, saying: They (the Western nations) are sending armaments to Ukraine, just as they used to pit India and Pakistan against one other and test their own munitions. Something similar is taking place here.
