The All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA), a platform of women, transgender, and non-binary persons, has written to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat and general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale, demanding action against Hindutva ideologue TG Mohandas over his derogatory remarks about students and women who protested at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar.
In an open letter issued on August 9, ALIFA accused Mohandas of making “violent, aggressive, and obnoxious” statements in videos published on his YouTube channel Pathrika between July 24 and 26. The alliance has demanded that the RSS and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) publicly condemn his statements and sever any remaining association with him.
In a video published on July 26, Mohandas spoke about what he would do if he were “in charge” of the students gathered at Jantar Mantar. He described imposing a curfew around the area, asking protesters to disperse, and subsequently opening fire, saying that some people would die and others would be permanently disabled.
“The bodies would be collected and taken to hospitals… This is a solution. Clean,” he said. Mohandas even said that “mass rapes” would occur at the protest site and that some women “like rape”.
ALIFA has demanded that the RSS and BJP take action over the remarks, pointing to Mohandas’ past association with the BJP and Sangh organisations. According to the letter, he had served as the Kerala BJP’s state convener of its Intellectual Cell and as a television spokesperson for the party. It also said he had been general secretary and later vice-president of Bharatiya Vichara Kendram, and had managed Ayodhya Printers and Janmabhumi.
“The BJP's Kerala unit has distanced itself from Mohandas and his statements,” the letter said, while arguing that his long association with the organisation warranted greater accountability.
The alliance’s four demands include a written and public condemnation of Mohandas’ statements by the RSS and BJP; severing of “every remaining platform and courtesy” extended to him by Sangh Parivar organisations and publications; support for the legal process against him; and removal of the videos from public circulation while preserving copies for investigation.
ALIFA has also questioned the RSS’ institutional responsibility, invoking its public statements on women and sexual violence, including its reference to women as “Matru Shakti”. The alliance said Mohandas’ remarks were incompatible with these stated positions.
The alliance has asked the RSS and BJP to respond to its demands by August 14. “If this 15th August passes in silence, we will read the silence as an answer,” the letter said, adding that it would consider silence from the RSS to be “complicity”.
The Kerala police had booked Mohandas on July 29, under Sections 192 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause a riot) and 353(1)(b) (statement conducing to public mischief) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Section 66 (criminal offence of computer hacking/tampering) of the Information Technology Amendment Act and Section 120(o) (causing nuisance and violation of public order) of the Kerala Police Act. There has been no arrest or questioning yet.