Keep RSS men out: Pranab seconds Arjun

Mukherjee8217;s comment is significant in the backdrop of efforts being made by the BJP-RSS to paint Singh as a 8216;8216;leftist8217;8217; who is out to embarrass the Prime Minister by launching a vituperative attack on the RSS. BJP and RSS leaders have been voicing the view that the HRD Minister8217;s attacks on the RSS are part of an 8216;8216;intra-Congress8217;8217; battle on the lines of the Arjun Singh versus Narasimha Rao one in the early 1990s, which led to Singh8217;s exit from the Rao-led Congress.

While Mukherjee did not associate himself directly with Arjun Singh8217;s anti-RSS remarks, he also made it clear that the party was united on the larger question of ideologically taking on the RSS.