RSS, BJP separate entities

NEW DELHI, DEC 25: BJP president Kushabhau Thakre today sought to underplay the RSS criticism of Vajpayee government's economic policy an...

NEW DELHI, DEC 25: BJP president Kushabhau Thakre today sought to underplay the RSS criticism of Vajpayee government’s economic policy and said it was not necessary that both should have similar views on all policy matters.

"BJP is not a part of RSS nor is RSS a part of BJP and minor differences in approach were due to their stands as two separate organisations…But this hardly matters", he told a private TV channel.

Regarding RSS criticism of BJP’s economic policy at its brain-storming session at Nagpur, he said the issue figured briefly during discussions over the situation prevailing in the country.

RSS never believed that government alone could bring about a change in the society and, therefore, its reference to politics was only brief, he said. Thakre said BJP members’ reservations on the IRA Bill and Patents Bill was due to communication gap.

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