It took Centre 50 years to realise RSS was wrongly banned for govt staff: Madhya Pradesh high court

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh HC Thursday said it took Union govt nearly five decades to realise that an “internationally renowned” organisation like RSS was wrongly placed in the list of organisations banned for govt employees.
HC’s remark came while it disposed of a writ petition of a retired central govt employee, Purushottam Gupta, challenging the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules as well as them emorandums of Centre that prevented participation of govt employees in activities of the Sangh.
“The court laments the fact that it took five decades for the Centre to realise its mistake; to acknowledge that an internationally renowned organisation like RSS was wrongly placed amongst banned organisations and that its removal therefrom is quintessential,” it said. “Aspirations of govt employees of serving the country in many ways, therefore, got diminished in these five decades because of this ban,” HC added.
It directed DoPT and MHA to publicly display on the home pages of their websites the memorandum through which the ban on govt employees joining Sangh was recently lifted.