Updated On: 05 July, 2019 07:34 AM IST | | Hemal Ashar
Dhrutiman Joshi, complainant in defamation case against RaGa, says the powerful can be fought,u00c2u00a0too and that stereotypes about the RSS must be fought

Dhrutiman Joshi at his home in Hindu Colony, Dadar. Pics/Pradeep Dhivar
Rahul Gandhi, a day after he stepped down as the Congress president, was in Mumbai for a court hearing in a defamation case. He had two years ago made a statement blaming the BJP-RSS ideology for the murder of journalist-author Gauri Lankesh in Bangalore in September 2017. Local RSS activist and criminal lawyer Dhrutiman Joshi had then filed the suit against him in 2017.
In the late 1990s, a very young Joshi meandered into a shakha near his home at Hindu Colony, in Dadar. The visit was the first of many. The RSS fired Joshi's imagination and in 2002, Joshi (then 13), joined the RSS.