Former CBI Interim Chief Wants Ban on Foreign Funds for NGOs

'In a rare development, a serving Indian Police Service officer has superseded service rules to contribute an article for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) mouthpiece Organiser. M. Nageswara Rao, who is currently posted as director-general of home guards, fire services and civil defence, is known to be close to key members of the RSS. He is a regular attendee of the events of the right-wing think tanks such as the India Foundation and Vivekananda International Foundation. In fact, he had also lobbied for a ban on beef exports, to maintain the “cultural fabric of the country.” Rao was given interim charge of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), when its director Alok Verma and special director Rakesh Asthana, were sent on leave pending an inquiry during the CBI crisis of 2018. In the article titled “The Dangers of Foreign Funding”, Rao opined that there should be a complete ban on foreign funding of NGOs in India as it “colonise[s] our minds and subvert[s] our national discourse.”...'