Inaction to cost dear, RSS tells BJP

KOCHI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat is reported to have said that the Sangh is upset with the Narendra Modi government’s inaction on tackling corruption and bringing back black money stashed away in tax havens abroad. 

 

He has reportedly warned the BJP that it will be held answerable to the people on this count in the 2019 general elections.

 

Speaking to a delegation of social activists in Kochi on Tuesday, the RSS chief said his organisation will exert pressure on the BJP government to adopt proactive measures to check the menace, according to D.B. Binu, a Kochi-based RTI activist and lawyer who was a member of the delegation that met the RSS leader.

 

“If the government fails to take proper measures against corruption, the BJP will be held answerable to the people in the 2019 general elections,” he said in response to a question, Mr Binu said. Mr Bhagwat also said he was in favour of the existing system of reservation. “Reservation is needed for people who suffered due to caste-based discrimination,” he told the delegation. 

 

The RSS chief, however,  said his organisation is opposed to reservation based on religion.

 

Mr Binu said the initiative for a meeting between Mr Bhagwat and social activists came from the RSS. 

 

Apart from him, advocate Sivan Madathil also attended the meeting with Mr Bhagwat which lasted for more than two hours. 

 

Mr Kaleeswaram Raj and Jaya Shankar, two other lawyers who were invited for the meeting, however, declined the invitation.