New Delhi, October 14: The remarks by AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi equating RSS with the banned terror outfit SIMI was a ploy to gain electoral advantage in the Bihar Assembly elections, BJP’s youth wing today said.
“They (Congress) want to gain in the Bihar elections by making such statements. He (Rahul) should feel sorry as RSS is a nationalistic organisation,” All India President of Bharatiya Yuva Janata Morcha Anurag Singh Thakur said.
Talking to reporters here after addressing an executive of the BJYM’s Tamil Nadu unit, he said Congress was unable to face “few communities” following the verdict on Ayodhya title suits and therefore its leaders were making such statements.
“RSS has contributed for the nation. If he doesn’t know about the organisation, he doesn’t deserve to be the Congress general secretary,” Thakur, also a Lok Sabha MP, said.
Gandhi had told reporters at Bhopal last week that RSS was a “fanatical” organisation, no different from the banned SIMI as both held “fundamental” views.
Responding to queries on the Karnataka crisis, Thakur alleged that Congress was trying to grab power at any cost and charged Governor H R Bhardwaj with acting like a “Congress agent.”
On the Jammu and Kashmir issue, he said separatists’ demand for withdrawal of army and dilution of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), would demoralise the force.
BJYM had already started a nation-wide ‘India First’ campaign with focus on Jammu and Kashmir. His party would press for other demands, including early rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits, to send out a “clear message” to the separatists.
He also charged the Congress-led Delhi government and Centre with mismanagement in the Commonwealth games, saying they had made enough blunders.
–Agencies