Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat is on a three-nation global outreach tour covering the US, Canada and the UK. Commenting on the ideology of the RSS, New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani said that it was “incredibly troubling” to see the rise of a movement in India that was based on an “exclusionary vision”.In his speech to the international audience in New York, the RSS chief stated that any Hindu who believes Muslims should be driven out of India ceases to be a true Hindu. He also said that “unity in diversity” is in Bharat’s DNA, and “diversity has to be celebrated, respected and accepted”. He talked about the idea of ‘live and let live’.Big words but starkly contradictory to the real ideology of the RSS, as articulated by their ideologue and second chief M.S. Golwalkar in his book, We or Our Nationhood Defined, published in 1939, which is considered as the organisation’s ideological pole star. “Hindusthan is the land of the Hindus and is the terra firma for the Hindu Nation alone to flourish upon, what is to be the fate of all those, who, today, happen to live upon the land, though not belonging to the Hindu Race, Religion and culture?…all those, who fall outside the five fold limits of that idea, can have no place in the national life, unless they abandon their differences, adopt the religion, culture and language of the Nation and completely merge themselves in the National race…, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment- not even citizen’s rights.”The RSS was applauded as the ‘world’s biggest NGO’ serving the nation in the Independence Day address by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year. Founded in 1925, even after 100 years of existence, the RSS is not a registered organisation, its membership is unknown to the public, its funding channels are deliberately kept hidden and its agenda can be construed only by a deep analysis, despite its huge influence over the nation.In his Independence Day speech this year, Modi proposed a “saptadhara” (seven streams) framework for national development. He also talked about Naxalism, terming his opponents as “dimagi Naxals” or “intellectual Naxals”.Also read: Why Golkwalkar Denied Writing ‘We or Our Nationhood Defined’All this rhetoric, including the foreign tour by the RSS chief, actually diverts attention from the real big game being played by the RSS, a parallel saptadhara of fascism engineered to capture state power and national resources in India. Executed through multiple fronts, this RSS-led apparatus operates seven distinct structural streams. Rather than driving national, cultural, religious or civilisational rejuvenation, these streams function as an integrated mechanism designed to concentrate material wealth and political power within the Sangh parivar and its affiliates.This system forms a self-perpetuating engine: political power is weaponised to extract financial resources, which are then reinvested to permanently secure that power. This sophisticated institutional architecture is continuously altering the foundational character of the Indian republic and the society. The real game of the RSS must be exposed in front of the whole world. The people must focus on these seven streams changing the fate of the nation and the society, not on the diversionary tactics of the prime minister or the RSS chief.The political streamThe first stream involves the comprehensive executive capture of India’s constitutional apparatus, dismantling the neutrality of the institutions that are designed to check the state power and to uphold democracy. The executive has systematically compromised independent arbiters and the system of checks and balances to establish centralised control.The appointment mechanism of the Election Commission of India (ECI) was altered by the government to ensure that compliant officials head the most important institution that guards Indian democracy through free and fair elections. This has ensured that the ruling-party’s violations are overlooked while there is asymmetric scrutiny of the opposition, targeted voter list re-engineering, compromised playing field and undue advantage for the BJP in the elections.Simultaneously, a partisan Lok Sabha Speaker has reduced the legislature to an echo chamber of the ruling party, bypassing parliamentary committees, passing landmark laws via voice votes without debate, and executing mass suspensions of opposition lawmakers. The opposition is regularly blocked from discussing burning issues like Ram Mandir donations’ loot or police atrocities on students’ during recent protests.This captivity extends to the judiciary, where the government uses delayed collegium clearances, strategic appointments, and lucrative post-retirement promises to force compliance, leading judges to abdicate or strategically delay their duty to protect the Constitution, fundamental rights and control executive overreach. Mainstream media has shamelessly prostrated before the state, while critical online narratives are heavily suppressed through high-volume social media takedown orders.Finally, to seal this political monopoly, state investigative agencies act as political weapons to freeze rivals’ assets, break regional parties, and bring down elected opposition state governments. State power is being used to crush any dissent or movements against the government like they did to the farmers movement, women wrestlers’ movement or the recent youth movement.The economic streamThe second stream describes a state-backed system of crony capitalism that systematically transfers vital national assets – ports, mines and telecom – to politically connected billionaires under the guise of modernisation and monetisation. This state-backed monopolisation, spurred by policies like demonetisation, crushes small and medium enterprises, while generating windfall profits for a corporate oligarchy. In return for these monopolistic privileges, these favoured conglomerates channel immense financial resources back into the ruling party’s coffers through opaque funding mechanisms. This massive asymmetry in capital effectively prices opposition voices out of fair electoral competition. Money distribution schemes are announced just before elections to lure voters. The system keeps the majority of the population economically dependent on subsistence rations, while ensuring that money and power continuously sustain each other.The fake nationalism streamThe third stream utilises a manufactured, performative brand of hyper-nationalism to insulate the ruling establishment from accountability by labelling domestic critique as treason. This aggressive patriotism creates an emotional shield for the state but stands in stark contradiction to actual geopolitical compromises made by the government.Along the northern borders with China, the government maintains strategic denial and media silence regarding territorial incursions and lost patrolling access simply to protect the public image of a “strong state and powerful leader”. This is mirrored by delayed acknowledgments of military casualties – such as the delayed admission of soldier losses in Operation Sindoor – and a lack of transparency regarding lost equipment.Ultimately, security and intelligence operations, like those around Uri and Balakot, that were kept secret in earlier regimes, are now stage-managed and amplified to polarise the domestic electorate. This shows that the hyper-nationalist posture is primarily an internal tool for winning elections and maintaining power rather than a strategy for genuine global strength.The religious streamThe fourth stream involves the political appropriation and commercialisation of religious sentiment to enforce majoritarian dominance, best exemplified by turning the Ram Mandir project into an electoral launchpad. Instead of leaving traditions to spiritual leaders, the state directly orchestrated a hyper-visible spectacle during the inauguration of the temple. Religion is being used to create a rigid political identity, branding minorities, especially Muslims and Christians, as internal enemies and consolidating a homogenised voting bloc of the Hindu majority.Also read: Ram Temple Funds Theft Case Deals the RSS One of Its Biggest-Ever Blows in Its Centenary YearBeneath this religious cover lie distinct material interests. Developing these mega-religious circuits has forced local displacement, demolished historic livelihoods and enabled corporate elites to seize land for windfall real estate gains. This represents a profound commodification of the religion, where spiritual heritage and even community donations are systematically usurped to serve the financial and electoral ambitions of the ruling party.The educational streamThe fifth stream targets the nation’s cognitive foundation through a systematic takeover of the educational ecosystem to produce a compliant citizenry. By revising curricula and purging historical texts, the establishment seeks to control memory and enforce a majoritarian narrative.Simultaneously, premier public universities face state hostility, financial starvation, and the strategic appointment of ideologically aligned professors and vice-chancellors. Prioritising loyalty over competence has collapsed the national testing and examinations infrastructure, where chronic paper leaks and corruption compromise the future of millions of students.Despite the recent youth protests, the appointment of yet another RSS-aligned education minister signals that the education system is no longer viewed as a space for human development. Instead, it has been reduced to a mechanism for ideological conditioning and financial extraction. The social justice streamThe sixth stream represents a covert assault on the constitutional mandate of social justice. Historically, the RSS has resisted caste-based reservations to promote and protect traditional social hierarchies. Since openly abolishing reservations is politically impossible due to electoral math, the current regime relies on structural erosion of the system. The recent design of the government to sabotage the caste census by employing a methodology that’ll return unreliable data is another example of scuttling the idea of social justice. Even the ground where LoP of the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharege delivered a speech was purified by the BJP-RSS workers, because he belongs to the Dalit community. Consequently, despite pro-social justice rhetoric, actual institutional power remains concentrated within the high caste privileged networks, blocking the upward mobility of historically marginalised communities – the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes. The cultural streamThe final and the seventh stream of the saptadhara aggressively enforces a totalising monoculture under a single, centralised umbrella. Recent controversies, like projecting the singing of ‘Vande Mataram’ as a test of loyalty to the nation, forcing taxi drivers in Mumbai to learn Marathi, asking for self-declaration forms for those attending Church in Maharashtra, illustrate this aggressive design. The RSS ecosystem views the country’s multi-layered identity – rooted in federal autonomy, multiple religions, different cultures, languages and regional pride – as an existential threat to its absolute control. By promoting absolute uniformity in laws, taxes, languages and culture, the RSS controlled state actively delegitimises distinct regional identities.This impulse suppresses regional aspirations, marginalising diverse populations under a standardised, North-centric template. Framing diversity as a weakness, the RSS establishment is trying to build a regimented and culturally homogeneous nation. This manufactured homogeneity relies on projecting an internal enemy, creating permanent social friction that prevents citizens from uniting against the central accumulation of power and wealth by the RSS.The saptadhara of fascism When these seven streams are viewed as a singular strategy, the rhetoric of “intellectual Naxalism” stands revealed as an ideological smokescreen. It is a deliberate narrative diversion designed to focus public attention on imaginary internal enemies, while transforming the society, its culture and the country’s democratic foundations, and capturing the state power and the national resources by the RSS.True subversion operates actively from the seats of governance, legitimising institutional captivity, economic monopolisation and social regression. Tracking this comprehensive takeover across political, economic, social and cultural spheres reveals the republic’s conversion into an authoritarian state and a corporate oligarchy.The RSS and its fronts have shown their true colours after capturing absolute power since 2014. They’re a grave threat to our democracy and need to be disbanded soon. Rahul Gandhi was mistaken or maybe misled when he said in a program recently that he believes in defending the right of everyone, even the RSS, to express their thoughts. He should not commit the mistake committed by the earlier prime ministers from the Congress party, who couldn’t foresee that such a divisive ideology would be so devastating for the country. Confronting this convergence of power and money by the RSS requires an urgent reclamation of core constitutional ideals: robust federalism, genuine social justice, respect for the Constitution and democratic institutions, a level playing field, scientific temper, and pluralism. But first, this regime and its saptadhara of fascism must be dismantled. India is fully capable of doing that. The recent youth protests have shown the way. The people have been misled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS long enough – not anymore.The writer is a farmers’ leader and was actively involved in the farmers’ agitation and wrestlers’ agitation. He is an alumnus of the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) and frequently writes columns in all the major national newspapers like The Indian Express, Dainik Jagran, Navbharat Times and Amar Ujala.