Foreign powers engineering 'regime change' across the world are really installing puppet governments to serve their own interests — and India is a prime target. That is the warning Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary amplified on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, sharing a pointed statement by RSS Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat on the occasion of the RSS Foundation Day.

Quoting Bhagwat directly, Choudhary's post reads: 'दुनिया भर में रिजीम चेंज के नाम पर हो रही उथल-पुथल वास्तव में विदेशी ताकतों द्वारा अपनी कठपुतली सरकारें बिठाने और अपने स्वार्थ का पोषण करने का उपक्रम है।' — 'The turmoil being caused across the world in the name of regime change is, in reality, a scheme by foreign powers to install puppet governments and serve their own selfish interests.'

Bhagwat's charge: local collaborators, foreign agendas

Bhagwat goes further, alleging that 'power-hungry and self-serving local leaders' are colluding with external forces to 'continuously conspire to weaken and dismantle India, Hindu society, and the Sangh.' The language is precise and confrontational — not geopolitical boilerplate but a named threat with named targets. It frames the RSS itself as a deliberate object of foreign subversion.

The counter to this threat, in Bhagwat's framing, is threefold: India's firm policies, strong leadership, and an awakened patriotism among the youth. These, he argues, are 'the biggest obstacle to the agenda of these forces.' The statement positions the Indian state and Hindu nationalist civil society not merely as defenders but as active disruptors of a hostile external project.

RSS Foundation Day and the 101-year arc

The timing is deliberate. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, founded on 27 September 1925, marks its foundation day as an occasion for ideological stocktaking. Now in its 101st year, the organisation has long framed its mission in terms of cultural and national consolidation. Bhagwat's statements on foreign interference are a recurring feature of these observances, but the explicitness of the 'dismantling' language and the direct invocation of the Sangh as a target gives this edition a sharper edge.

Senior BJP figures amplifying RSS leadership's words — as Choudhary does here — is a well-established pattern, particularly since 2014. It signals ideological alignment across the organisational and governmental wings and ensures the message travels well beyond the RSS's own ecosystem into mainstream political discourse.

Bihar's CM enters a national-security conversation

Choudhary is Bihar's Chief Minister, not a foreign-policy portfolio holder — yet his choice to broadcast Bhagwat's foreign-interference warning reflects how thoroughly the sovereignty-threat narrative has become a standard political register for BJP leadership at every level. The post carries no state-specific policy implication; its weight is entirely ideological, directed at a national and organisational audience on a symbolically loaded day.

Whether opposition parties respond — or whether RSS functionaries sharpen the charge with specifics in the weeks ahead — will determine how far this framing travels into mainstream legislative debate. For now, the message from the RSS's centenary-plus moment is unmistakable: the organisation sees itself as both a target and a bulwark, and it wants that understood.