Controversy in Kerala after software engineer's suicide note alleges sexual abuse by 'RSS members'

A 26-year-old software engineer has allegedly died by suicide in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, reported The Indian Express on Sunday. In an Instagram post on Thursday, the day his body was found in a tourist home in the Thampanoor area, the man alleged that he was suffering from anxiety and depressive episodes following sexual abuse by members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Anandu Aji’s body was found by the staff of the tourist home on Thursday evening.

A case of unnatural death has been registered and the probe is in its initial stages, The Indian Express quoted an unidentified police personnel as saying.

“I am not angry with anyone, except one person and an organisation,” read the letter posted on Aji’s Instagram account. “The organisation is RSS, which my father (a very good person) made me join. That is where I have suffered lifelong trauma, from the organisation and that person.”

He alleged that he “was continuously sexually abused by a person”, whom he identified as “NM”, at the age of three to four years.

The letter alleged that this person was a member of the RSS and the Bharatiya Janata Party, and was a neighbour and “considered like a relative by my family”.

The RSS is the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

On Sunday, Priyanka Gandhi of the Congress called on the RSS...

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