BJP-Congress war of words intensifies over RSS comment
New Delhi: BJP’s national spokesperson R.P. Singh on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Congress party and its MP Manickam Tagore over their comments against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He warned that the leader should think for himself or be prepared to face a defamation case. This reaction came after Tagore, while responding to senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh’s praise of the RSS, launched a scathing attack on the organisation. He said that the Congress has nothing to learn from what he described as a hate-mongering body. Manickam Tagore had said, “The RSS is an organisation of hate. It spreads hatred, promotes hatred and does propaganda based on hatred. There is nothing to learn from the RSS. Just as Al-Qaeda works through bloodshed, the RSS also does the same thing inside the country – spreading hatred.” Reacting strongly to this statement, BJP spokesperson R.P. Singh said, “Manikam Tagore should think twice before speaking, otherwise he will face a defamation case later.”
Singh supported Digvijay Singh’s praise of the RSS’s organizational strength and said that, unlike the Congress, the BJP and RSS focus on their grassroots workers. “He is right—this is only possible in the BJP, where a grassroots worker can become the Chief Minister of a state and even the Prime Minister of the country. In his party (Congress), there was no thinking beyond the family—first Sonia Gandhi, then Rahul Gandhi, now Priyanka Gandhi, and then her children and husband Robert Vadra.
In his party, everything is run according to that particular family, whereas in the BJP, everything is run according to the party workers,” Singh said. The BJP spokesperson further claimed that the Congress currently has “no credible leaders left” in its ranks and no concrete policies to present to the public.
Singh said, “Whatever issues they raise, people reject them outright. And today, people have even started doubting the Congress’s intentions. So, there is no leader, no policy, and their intentions are not right. That’s why people are rejecting them. They may have a working committee, they may have a foundation day—but this is not the same Congress that contributed to the freedom struggle, but is focused only on the greed for power.”
