Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls early next year, Congress has brought out a booklet to corner the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party and would distribute around 55 lakh copies of the booklets among Congress workers.
Besides, the party has plans to distribute an additional 45 lakh booklets during the assembly polls.
While the booklet does not mention the name of the publisher or the Congress party, they are being distributed to party workers in all districts as part of the on-going 'training workshops'.
A well-placed source in the Congress said that the 16-page booklet titled ‘'Bharat aur Bharatiyata ke Khilaf RSS aur BJP’ also levels charges against the RSS of betraying and sabotaging the freedom movement and for betraying and opposing the symbols of freedom – the national flag and the national anthem.
UP Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu too has admitted that this booklet was being distributed among party workers during the training programme..
The booklet also slams the Sangh Parivar as being anti-Constitution, citing an article published in the RSS mouthpiece 'Organiser' at the time of framing of Indian Constitution.
The booklet is being described as Congress's effort to fight the RSS on the ground and build an ideological narrative against it.
The other booklets being widely distributed among the Congress workers are titled 'Hum Congress ke Log', 'Dushprachar aur Sacch', 'Kisne Bigada Uttar Pradesh aur ‘Jimmedar Kaun', 'Corona Sankat ke Dauran Modi Sarkar ki Laparwahi ka ek Dastavej'.
It is being said that among these booklets, the one focusing on the RSS is highly volatile and can usher in a war of words between the Congress and the BJP / RSS.