Netaji never had any issue with Sangh ideology: Bengal RSS unit

Speaking on the sidelines of a press conference in Kolkata, Ajay Kumar Nandi, the RSS sanghchalak in the eastern region, said that Netaji was never a critic of RSS.

“It is not right to say that Netaji was a critic of the RSS. He never said this.”
RSS’s south Bengal chapter publicity head ( prachar pramukh) Biplab Roy said, “We celebrate Netaji’s birthday anniversary every year.

This year, the RSS chief is coming here and hence things have been planned accordingly. Last year, he was here on January 15 and the Makar Sankranti was celebrated on a large scale.”

The RSS has grown steadily in Bengal over past few years and that it runs 2,500 shakhas (branches) in the state against 722 in 2014, he claimed, adding, “We have sent an order of 10,000 uniforms in the state.”

Ahead of the panchayat elections in Bengal, Bhagwat’s visit to the state had triggered a political uproar with Trinamool Congress criticising the marking of Netaji’s birth anniversary as “an attempt by the RSS and the BJP to appropriate the national icon ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls”.