No, the RSS is not a registered NGO. And no, the RSS is not subjected to any audit. It is not covered by the Income Tax Act and nobody quite knows how its raises its funds and if it receives foreign funds. But the world’s largest self-styled ‘ cultural’ organisation is clearly not strapped of funds and is in the process of constructing three towers in New Delhi.

The construction follows the new BJP party office, resembling a corporate office, built next door in record time. The BJP, the richest political party in India certainly, is also on record with the claim, made after Demonetisation in 2016, that it had purchased land in every district of the country and would be constructing offices there.