New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday that he stands by his comments on the RSS and would never stop fighting its “hateful and divisive agenda”.
“I will never stop fighting the hateful and divisive agenda of the RSS. I stand by every single word I said,” Rahul said in a tweet.
Rahul told the Supreme Court that he had not blamed the RSS as an organisation for Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, but only the people linked with it. He had buttressed his stand by citing paragraphs from his affidavit filed in the Bombay High Court, while challenging the summons issued to him as an accused for his alleged defamatory statement in a 2015 election rally in Maharashtra.
Following this, BJP had claimed that ‘wisdom’ has prevailed upon the Congress leader and although it may be a “U-turn”, it was a “good turn”. “Wisdom has prevailed. It may be a U-turn but a good turn. RSS a patriotic organization. RSS – Ready for Self Service anywhere any time,” senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu tweeted.
However, Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday dismissed suggestions that has done a U turn in the Supreme Court on the RSS and said that Rahul stands by his assertion that the person who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi was from the organisation.
“No u-turn by Rahul Gandhi on RSS. He stands by what he said. Person who killed was from RSS. It is the Ideology of hate and violence which killed Mahatma Gandhi”, the Congress General Secretary said in a series of tweets.
