“The NGO has produced a person called Godse who has killed Bapu.”
PM Modi Faces Backlash from Opposition over 'RSS the biggest NGO' remark on Independence Day News
PM Narendra Modi, on Friday, addressing the nation on the 79th Independence Day, called Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) the biggest NGO in the world. His statement has caused a massive outrage among the opposition leaders.
In the 103-minute-long speech, he hailed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its ‘swayamsevaks’ for their ‘service’ to ‘our motherland’.
PM said, "Today, I would like to proudly mention that 100 years ago, an organisation was born - Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). 100 years of service to the nation is a proud, golden chapter. With the resolve of 'vyakti nirman (Character development) se rashtra nirman (Nation Building)', with the aim of welfare of Maa Bharati, swayamsevaks dedicated their lives to the welfare of our motherland...In a way, RSS is the biggest NGO of the world. It has a history of 100 years of dedication..."
“Today, I respectfully remember all the swayamsevaks who have contributed to these 100 years of national service," he added.
Congress leader Gurdeep Singh Sappal criticised PM Modi for his statement on RSS. Singh said PM ‘hid’ what RSS did in the first 22 years of its 100 years of ‘service’, and that RSS “was in the service of the British Raj.”
"Today, the Prime Minister, while praising the RSS from the ramparts of the Red Fort, said that the RSS has been dedicated to the service of the country for 100 years. But the Prime Minister hid one thing from the country, that in the first 22 years of these 100 years, between 1925 and 1947, the RSS was not in the service of the country, it was in the service of the British Raj...”
He accused RSS of creating ‘hatred’. Singh said, “It is not that RSS has done any work for the country. The work of RSS was mainly and only to create hatred to come to power. Prime Minister Modi should not have hidden this from the country today..."
Congress leader Gurdeep Singh Sappal remarked while speaking to ANI.
Congress's Shama Mohamed also slammed PM Modi for calling RSS an "NGO". She accused RSS of ‘dividing people’. “The NGO has produced a person called Godse who has killed Bapu.”
Another Congress leader and the National Spokesperson for the Indian National Congress, Supriya Shrinate, said, "It is such a sad affair that the Prime Minister of this country, from Red Fort, took the name of an organisation that was banned by Sardar Patel. The organisation from which Nathuram Godse took inspiration to kill Mahatma Gandhi...”
“The reality is that PM Modi gave less importance to freedom fighters when he talked about the RSS from the ramparts of Red Fort..." Supriya fumed.
Meanwhile, BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, speaking to ANI on the matter, said, “As a volunteer, I felt very proud that on the completion of 100 years of RSS, he praised it from the ramparts of the Red Fort."
West Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim avoided commenting PM’s statement on the RSS today. "Ideologically and policy-wise speaking, we don't agree with the RSS. We are against their ideals. So, I won't comment on it," Firhad Hakim said, speaking to the Media.
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