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RSS
activities should be monitored, says Congress
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, IANS
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New Delhi:
The Congress Wednesday said that activities of the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) should be closely monitored and it was for
the government to decide if any action should be taken against the
organisation.
"Their (RSS) activities should be closely watched and monitored.
It is for the government to decide if any action should be taken,"
Congress spokesman Manish Tewari told mediapersons here.
Referring to the remarks of RSS leaders that the probe in the
Ajmer blast case was "political and vindictive", Tewari said the
organisation was adopting a "negative attitude" in a criminal
case.
He said that the RSS arguments were "weak and a sign of its
nervousness".
"The RSS needs to introspect what is wrong with its ideology that
it gives birth to fundamentalism. Whenever RSS' name has cropped
up, it has been in a negative context," he said.
Three people were killed and 30 injured in the Ajmer blast at
Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti's shrine in 2007.
Referring to names of Devender, Lokesh Sharma, Sandeep Dange,
Chander Shekhar Lave and Sunil Joshi, who have been charged with
conspiracy in the Ajmer blast case by Rajasthan police, Tewari
alleged they had past or present connections with the RSS.
He said that name of RSS leader Indresh Kumar has also been
mentioned in the charge sheet.
Tewari said that till the time lower-rung RSS leaders were being
caught, the organisation's stance was reasonable but after leaders
like Indersh Kumar were named in the police charge sheet, it was
betraying uneasiness.
"Whether he (Indresh Kumar) is involved or not will be decided by
the Ajmer court. But the organisation needs to introspect and
reflect about its ideology," he said.
Tewari said incidents like Ajmer blast also undermine India's
principled position on terror.
He said it was true that one kind of fundamentalism provided a
breeding ground for another kind of terrorism.
Asked about party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's comparison
between the RSS and the banned Students Islamic Movement of India
(SIMI), Tewari said it was important to note the context in which
the party leader had spoken.
Tewari said Gandhi was asked a question about the ideology needed
to join the Congress and he said that the ideology should be
secular and not like that of the SIMI and the RSS.
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