Let BJP analyse, we will not interfere, says RSS

25/08/2009
New Delhi: As BJP grappled with dissensions, RSS said on Tuesday that it will not intervene in its affairs and that the party will have to "analyse" the developments and take the right decision.
"I want to say this clearly that it is not the job of the RSS," its spokesman Ram Madhav told reporters here a day after senior BJP leader Arun Shourie demanded that the Sangh should take over the reins of BJP.
Madhav said RSS would provide "help and advice" to the BJP "but the political work has to be managed by them."
Referring to Shourie's contention that the BJP leadership is not able to handle the situation, the RSS spokesman said, "Whatever is there, it is their work to think about it."
"The job of analysing and taking the right decision is party's discretion, not ours," he said.
Asked if the RSS was worried over the recent developments in the BJP, he said, "the view of the RSS has already been voiced by our chief (Mohan Bhagwat). He also said what the organisation expects from its swayamsevaks. We don't need to make special comments."
In Delhi, RSS spokesman Ram Madhav said Sudarshan was basically discussing the Partition history and that there was a time when Jinnah was a "follower" of Tilak.
"Statements of our senior leaders are sometimes misrepresented and misinterpreted in the media. He (Sudarshan) was basically discussing the Partition history when there was a time in freedom struggle history when Jinnah was a follower of Lokmanya Tilak," he told reporters while referring to the former RSS chief's statement on Jinnah in Indore yesterday.
Madhav said Sudarshan was only stating that Jinnah later in life became a big advocate of India's Partition "and he was prodded and propped up by the Britishers and he played into their hands and became the major champion of Partition - that's all he said".
Source: PTI

K.Venugopal
#2
25 August 2009 06:50:22
If Arun Shourie had attended RSS shakha even for a single day, he would have caught the spirit of the RSS and he would have understood that the RSS has no need to "take over" the BJP in the manner of its swayamsevaks raiding the BJP offices and displacing the BJP office bearers! The RSS hold over the BJP is one of influence, not of dictatorial force. The RSS will continue to work with dedicated BJP workers, many of whom have put in a good measure of their life time to build up the BJP. The relationship among the Sangha Parivar is not one of "we" and "they" but of just "we". Clearly, all who are making the loudest noises against the BJP today are folks who have not been swayamsevaks. The RSS must invite non-swayamsevak BJP office-bearers to attend daily shakha and catch the spirit of Sangha. Then it will be a life long dedication to Sangha and BJP ideals.

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