AN FIR was filed against former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief KS Sudarshan by a Congress worker, Suresh Mishra in Jaipur for allegedly making inflammatory statements against Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi. It is not new in Indian politics that leaders choose to speak rough language against opposition leader.
K S Sudarshan has shocked the whole nation and his own ideological organisation, when he spoke of his weird speculation about Mrs. Gandhi. He accused her of being a CIA agent and plotting deaths of her husband and mother-in-law. It is a shame that incidents like this cause adjournment of parliament and result in the loss of important hours of discussion which matters to country. The Congress workers' never say die attitude towards Nehru-Gandhi left no chance to declaring him a “fossil from the archaeological museum”. They staged a demonstration outside the RSS headquarters and burnt effigies of former RSS leader at various places.
Bharatiya Janta Party(BJP) tried to play a safe game and kept sensible distance from such remarks. It shows our unreasonable style in India politics and disturbance demonstrate two things: first, Congress' defensiveness about Gandhi even when they need no protection and it looks like sycophancy, second BJP, who is regularly supporting Sangh ideology without any second thoughts raised eyebrows on their relationship with Sangh. Sangh mindsets is familiar to Indian politics that sees conspiracies everywhere.
Now, Sangh has regretted the highly objectionable remarks against Sonia Gandhi. But BJP has been caught on the back foot. As long as it seeks benefit from RSS, the party will definitely end up looking shifty when incidents like this occur. BJP needs to demonstrate itself for their own sake of centre politics. Party must be separate their ideologies from RSS and other Sangh siblings otherwise in next election it will again lose in majority.
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