Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday made light of the letter Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge wrote to him, demanding that the Sangh register itself and disclose its sources of finance.”This is all politics. The intention here is to create doubts among people about us. RSS is not working secretly. It holds its shakhas openly and everyone knows about us. The demand to register RSS need not be taken seriously…Even Hindu dharma is not registered. Only those who need government funding need to get registered. We are a body of volunteers,” he said.Bhagwat said Sangh was a recognised body of individuals as per laws of the land and was exempted from income tax.On earlier occasions as well, Bhagwat has addressed allegations that the RSS is an unregistered, unrecognised body.”How did the government ban an unrecognised body thrice. How did the courts thrice resolve that ban? RSS is a body of individuals which functions on voluntary donations (guru dakshina) exempted from income tax as per law,” he said taking the same stand.The Sangh chief said that before Independence, the Sangh could not have registered with the British government, and after Independence, the laws did not mandate registration.”Income tax asked us to pay but courts exempted our guru dakshina from tax. We are a recognised body of individuals and very much a constitutional, legal entity. You keep hearing pro and anti RSS statements all the time in Parliament. You would not have heard those had the RSS been unrecognised…By the way even Hindu Dharma is unregistered,” he has said on November 9 last year while taking questions at the influencers’ meeting in Delhi.Bhagwat added that RSS was established in 1925 and could not have been registered with the British government.”After Independence laws did not make registration mandatory. We are categorised as a body of individuals, and we are a recognised organisation,” he said, adding the Income Tax department and courts have also termed RSS as a body of individuals and the organisation stands exempted from income tax.