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'Why Is RSS Hostile To Me When I Am A Hindu?' Asks Digvijaya Singh

IANS, 29 Mar, 2019 10:43 PM

    Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh asked Thursday why the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was hostile to him, a Hindu.


    Mr Singh, who is the Congress candidate from Bhopal, said he was a disciple of Shankaracharya, but he did not show off his faith.


    "I have no dispute with the RSS. If the RSS is an organisation of Hindus, Digvijaya Singh too is a Hindu. Then why this hostility," he said, when asked by reporters why the BJP dubs him as anti-RSS and anti-Hindu.


    "I am an anointed disciple of Dwarka and Jyotish Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopananda Saraswati since 1983.


    Neither I tom-tom my faith from the rooftop nor do I exploit it during elections," the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister said.


    "Politics divides, it divides even families. Therefore religion should not be connected to politics," the Congress leader said.


    To a question about BJP's slogan of "Congress-Mukt Bharat" (Congress-free India), he said, "This was the mindset of Hitler...this mean no opposition. We are fighting this mindset."


    Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised two crore jobs, but after note-ban, 27,000 jobs were lost every day, he claimed.

     

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