RSS men planted in each ministry, alleges Rahul
kalaburagi (Karnataka) — Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of trying to “capture” every institution and alleged that NDA ministers were not operating independently as the Sangh Parivar outfit’s men were planted in each ministry.
He also said the idea of demonetisation was given to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by a “particular ideologue” of the RSS.
“In every single Ministry in India, at the national level there is an OSD from RSS working with the minister...The minister is not operating on his own,” he said.
Interacting with professionals and the business community at the end of his four-day campaign in poll-bound Karnataka, he said the ministers were being guided by RSS on what to do.
“The approach is of capture, the approach is here is an institution and let us capture it; as opposed to allowing an institution to serve the people of India and allowing the people of India to capture the institution,” Gandhi said.
“This is the fundamental conflict we have with the BJP. Their idea is wherever they go they plant people with their ideology into that organisation,” he said. The Congress’ idea is to “democratise” institutions while BJP believes in “bureaucratising” the institutions, he said.
Gandhi, who has been highly critical of the note ban,said the demonetisation idea originated from an RSS ideologue who had placed the idea into the Prime Minister’s
The approach is of capture, the approach is here is an institution and let us capture it...
Rahul Gandhi, Congress president
mind. “Do you know where the idea of notebandi (note ban) came from? Do you know who gave the idea of notebandi to the prime minister of India. It was not RBI, it was not Arun Jaitley (Finance Minister), it was not an officer in the Finance Ministry,” Gandhi said.
“It was a particular ideologue of the RSS. Now you imagine the RSS places an idea into the prime minister’s mind and the prime minister launches that idea.”
Gandhi said even a child would say it was not a good idea to “destroy” Rs500 and Rs1000 notes that allowed corrupt to convert their black money into white. But the BJP and the RSS who think only they know everything were taking such “disastrous decisions.” — PTI