RSS denies Mohan Bhagwat saying Nadda's poll statement was personal opinion

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RSS says media report on Mohan Bahgwat speaking on JP Nadda baseless

By Our Special Correspondent

New Delhi, June 17: The Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) on Monday trashed a media report which claimed that Mohan Bhagwat had made light of the statement made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Jagat Prakash Nadda during the Lok Sabha elections.

Dainik Jagran in a report claimed that the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Gorakhpur had said that Nadda’s statement was his personal opinion. The RSS has said that Bhagwat made no public statement in Gorakhpur.

The RSS prachar pramukh (communication department chief) Sunil Ambekar said that the Dainik Jagran report was fake. Tagging the report of the Hindi daily, Ambekar posted on X: “The report is baseless.”

The report of the Hindi daily also claimed Bhagwat saying, “organisation (RSS) had nothing to do with his (Nadda’s) statement”. The daily also claimed Bhagwat saying that the “people have freedom of speech and expression”.

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It may be recalled that Nadda in an interview had said that the BJP was capable on its own to contest the Lok Sabha elections. Nadda was quoted having said that the BJP is now more standing on its feet unlike in the past when the party needed the support of the RSS.

Ambekar officially denied the report of the Hindi daily which sought to convey that the RSS is not taking Nadda’s statement seriously. The political observers that the denial of the news report shows the hardening of the stand by the RSS over the affairs of the BJP in the aftermath of the Lok Sabha elections.

Ambekar said that Bhgawat is undertaking the nationwide tour as a part of the training programme of the organisation. The RSS chief had unleashed an avalanche of commentary after his speech in Nagpur during a training programme last week.

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Bhagwat’s two specific concerns were seen aimed at the BJP. The RSS chief had slammed the arrogance, saying that a “Swayamsewak cannot be arrogant”.

This remark on “arrogance” was widely interpreted to have been aimed at the top brass of the BJP.

Additionally, the RSS chief lamented that Manipur is still pining for peace even after a year of ethnic violence in the Northeastern state. Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah had normalised the Manipur violence by citing statistics of the past incidents.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also not visited Manipur even once after the outbreak of the ethnic violence. The BJP lost the Lok Sabha elections in the violence-hit state.

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