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Opposition and BJP Spar Over Order Allowing Govt  Employees to Participate in RSS Activities A recent order issued by the Ministry of Personnel permitting government servants to participate in activities of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has sparked a heated exchange between the opposition parties and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). BJP's Stance BJP leader Amit Malviya announced on Monday that the central government has withdrawn a 58-year-old "unconstitutional order" that had banned government employees from taking part in RSS activities. He referred to the original ban, implemented in 1966, which was imposed following a massive anti-cow-slaughter protest at the Parliament, mobilized by RSS-Jana Sangh. "The unconstitutional order issued 58 years ago, in 1966, imposing a ban on government employees taking part in the activities of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been withdrawn by the Modi government. The original order shouldn't have been passed in t...