Hamid Ansari Recalls Nehru’s Warning on Communalism

Brief By ptinews / 2:26 PM on 19 Sep 2026

Former Vice President Hamid Ansari, speaking at the AG Noorani Memorial Lecture, cited Jawaharlal Nehru’s reported warning that the danger to India was not communism but Hindu right-wing communalism. Ansari discussed Noorani’s 2019 book, The RSS: A Menace to India, and quoted the observation while addressing the gathering in New Delhi on Saturday.