A day after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi told the Supreme Court that he never blamed the Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh (RSS) as an institution for the murder of Mahatma Gandhi, Rahul said on Thursday he will never stop fighting the RSS.
“I will never stop fighting the hateful & divisive agenda of the RSS. I stand by every single word I said,” tweeted Rahul. His tweet came after media reports said that he took a U-turn on Wednesday when he told the Supreme Court that he did not ever blame the RSS for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi but had only said that a “few individuals in the organisation” were responsible for it.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh dismissed suggestions that Rahul has made a U-turn in the Supreme Court on the RSS and said the party vice-president stands by his assertion that the person who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi was from the organisation.
“No U-turn by Rahul Gandhi on the RSS. He stands by what he said. Person who killed was from the RSS. It is the Ideology of hate and violence which killed Mahatma Gandhi”, said the Congress general secretary in a series of tweets.
Before Rahul’s tweet, Information and Broadcasting Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said in the morning that wisdom had prevailed upon the Congress vice-president.
After Rahul came out with the latest tweet to blame the RSS, the BJP accused him of speaking lies to target the Sangh and asked him why the UPA Government did not take any action against the Hindutva organiation during its 10 years in power. “Those living in glass houses should not throw stones at others. Will Rahul Gandhi be liked with the rape and murder of the Dalit woman Bhanwari Devi or killing of Naina Sahni because those accused of these crimes were from the CongressIJ
“The truth is that RSS has only grown in strength despite attempts by likes of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi to target it. It just shows Rahul Gandhi’s ideological bankruptcy and we do not take him seriously,” said BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma.
Party spokesperson GVl Narasimha Rao said, “Gandhi’s face saving verbal gymnastics after surrender in court on RSS won’t help. False bravado and bluster no substitutes to truth.”