Won't stop fighting divisive agenda of RSS, stand by every word I said: Rahul
Congress rejected claims by BJP that Rahul Gandhi had made a 'u-turn' on his RSS remarks.
New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday rejected claims that he had blunted his attack on the RSS and said that he stood by every word he said on Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, which led to a defamation case against him.
“I will never stop fighting the hateful & divisive agenda of the RSS. I stand by every single word I said,” Rahul said in a tweet.
Rahul on Wednesday had told the Supreme Court that he had never blamed RSS as an institution for killing Mahatama Gandhi but persons associated with it were behind the assassination.
He had buttressed his stand by citing paragraphs from his affidavit filed in the Bombay High Court, while challenging the summons issued to him as an accused for his alleged defamatory statement in a 2015 election rally in Maharashtra.
Read: ‘Never blamed RSS as an institution for assassinating Gandhi’: Rahul tells SC
Following this, BJP had claimed that ‘wisdom’ has prevailed upon the Congress leader and although it may be a "U-turn", it was a "good turn".
"Wisdom has prevailed. It may be a U-turn but a good turn. RSS a patriotic organization. RSS - Ready for Self Service anywhere any time," senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu tweeted.
However, Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday dismissed suggestions that has done a U turn in the Supreme Court on the RSS and said that Rahul stands by his assertion that the person who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi was from the organisation.
"No u-turn by Rahul Gandhi on RSS. He stands by what he said. Person who killed was from RSS. It is the Ideology of hate and violence which killed Mahatma Gandhi", the Congress General Secretary said in a series of tweets.