Modi finds few takers at RSS meeting

Whether RSS will be an active participant in the run-up to the Assembly polls in Gujarat was one of the issues on the agenda...

Whether RSS will be an active participant in the run-up to the Assembly polls in Gujarat was one of the issues on the agenda of the four-day meet of senior RSS leaders held in Mumbai. The meeting, which concluded on Sunday, assumes significance as top leaders of the RSS gathered to ruminate over the parent body’s relationship with the BJP.

Senior BJP leaders, including party President Rajnath Singh and senior BJP leader L K Advani, attended the meet on Saturday. The VHP’s Praveen Togadia, who had criticised the Narendra Modi Government in Gujarat for its ‘anti-Hindu’ stance, also attended the meeting on all four days.

According to sources, the Gujarat issue was discussed at length during the meeting, and a majority of sister outfits of the Sangh Parivar seemed unhappy with the Government headed by Modi. A top leader of the Sangh Parivar said that leaders representing the VHP, Vanvasi Kalyan Parishad (VKP), Kisan Sangh, ABVP and other organisations expressed their “unwillingness” to extend their cooperation to the Modi Government in the forthcoming polls.

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“We have explained why we should not work for the BJP headed by Modi. We have told Sangh leaders that Modi has done very little for the RSS or any sister outfit in the past five years,” said a senior leader. On the contrary, he has tried at all levels to sideline the RSS outfits, he added.

There are indications that the RSS and other outfits would remain passive during elections in the state. “Nobody would come on record, but this was the view expressed by top leaders of different outfits,” he said.

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