Members of the Indian Youth Congress, led by its national president, Uday Bhanu Chib, burnt copies of Manusmriti outside the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Delhi on Sunday (30th August). They staged a protest and raised slogans like “Manusmriti Nahi Samvidhan Chahiye” (We choose the Constitution, not the Manusmriti) and “Daliton ka ye Apmaan Nahi Sahega Hindustan” (India will not tolerate insults to Dalits).
The Youth Congress members were protesting against the alleged act of untouchability committed against Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge, who comes from the Dalit community, in Haldwani, Uttarakhand. The Indian Youth Congress President repeated the lies of his leader, Rahul Gandhi, and alleged that BJP and RSS members displayed untouchability against Kharge.
#WATCH | Delhi: Indian Youth Congress National President Shri Uday Bhanu Chib says, "We went to the RSS office. Members of the Youth Congress burned the Manusmriti there. It was done because when Kharge ji visited Uttarakhand, a 'purification' ritual was performed after his… https://t.co/W6A2E31sp4 pic.twitter.com/BNZFkiVr8Y
— ANI (@ANI) August 30, 2026
The allegation refers to a Havan ceremony organised at a ground in Haldwani on 10th August after a Congress rally was held there on 8th August. The rally was attended by Kharge, and the Congress Party claimed that the Havan ceremony was performed for the shuddhikaran (purification) of the place after Kharge visited it. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed that the shuddhikaran was performed by BJP members and accused the BJP of promoting casteism and untouchability against Dalits.
The counter to Rahul Gandhi and his party’s allegations came directly from the organisers of the Havan ceremony, who included members from the Dalit community. But the Congress party was hell-bent on pushing its false claims by misusing a sensitive issue like untouchability to attack the BJP.
Members of the Shri Ram Seva Dharmarth Nyas, which organised the Havan ceremony, stated before the media that the ground where the Congress rally was held was left filthy and full of trash and bottles filled with urine after the rally. The ground is used to organise the Ram Leela event, and therefore, the organisation cleaned it and performed a puja ceremony to restore its sanctity. The organisation outrightly rejected the claim that Havan was organised to purify the ground since Kharge, a Dalit, had visited it.
However, Rahul Gandhi, who was once accused by Dalit leader and former Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati of taking baths after meeting Dalits, is not concerned about the truth; he is concerned about his petty politics. Despite the clarification and after knowing that the BJP had nothing to do with the puja ceremony, Rahul Gandhi and the Congress ecosystem are still dragging the BJP and the RSS into the manufactured controversy.
