‘GETTING BACK DISSENTING BJP LEADERS NOT RSS’S WORK’

RSS’s Jaipur Prant Sanghchalak Dr Ramesh Agarwal on Tuesday said the RSS is not actively engaged in getting dissenting BJP leaders back into the party fold.

Asked at a press conference if dissident BJP leaders will be brought back, Dr Agarwal said this was not the thinking of the Sangh. “If that person seeks advice then the Sangh gives it keeping in mind the welfare of the country and the state. But the Sangh does not actively go after dissenters to bring them back to the BJP.”

Asked about Dr Kirori Lal Meena rejoining the BJP, Agarwal said he returned as he is aligned with the RSS ideology.

Meena, a powerful leader in eastern Rajasthan, rejoined the BJP on March 11 after nine years. He is the BJP candidate for the Rajya Sabha. On rejoining the BJP, Meena had said that he had returned not on directions of the state or central unit of the party but on directions of the ‘vichar pariwar’.

“He is a sangh swayamsevak. So he might have felt that he should return to the party that he left due to some differences,” said Agarwal. Agarwal said a grand Ram temple will be built in Ayodhya driven by the aspirations of the people and not due to politics being played on the issue.

“The temple exists in Ayodhya. But now a grand temple will be built there. Ram is in the heart of every Indian and only a Ram temple can come up at Ayodhya.”Asked if the BJP was raking up the issue in view of general elections, Agarwal said the BJP might be politicising the issue but the RSS has refrained from it. He said RSS had backed organisations like VHP that are campaigning for building a Ram temple in Ayodhya.

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