New Delhi: Former Delhi chief minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday wrote to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, demanding answers from him for Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s actions. In his letter, the AAP chief posed some questions to the RSS chief.
“I am not writing this letter as a leader of a political party but as a common citizen of this country. Today I am concerned about the condition of the country. The direction in which the BJP government is taking the country and its politics is harmful for the entire country. If this continues, our democracy will be destroyed, our country will be destroyed,” he said in the letter.
“There are some questions in the minds of the people in this regard which I am placing before you. My intention is to save and strengthen Indian democracy,” he added.
Kejriwal poses 5 questions to RSS chief
Kejriwal asked the RSS chief if the BJP’s parent Hindutva organisation supports the party’s politics of using central agencies to break up parties and distablise opposition governments.
“Across the country, leaders of other parties are being silenced by offering various kinds of inducements or by threatening with ED-CBI, their parties are being broken up and governments of other parties are being toppled. Is it right for the country and its democracy to topple an elected government in this manner? Is it acceptable to you or RSS to achieve success by any means, by cheating?,” Kejriwal asked.
Kejriwal pointed out that some political leaders were called corrupt by the Prime Minister and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and a few days later the same leaders were made to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He asked Bhagwat if he agreed with the BJP’s politics of calling politicians “corrupt” and then inducting them into its fold. “Don’t you feel ashamed after seeing all this?” he further asked the RSS chief.
He further said that it is the responsibility of RSS to bring the BJP on the right path and asked Bhagwat if he ever tried to stop the Prime Minister from doing all “these wrong things”.
In another question, Kejriwal asked Bhagwat if the BJP’s rule on age of retirement would apply to PM Modi as it did for party’s veteran leader LK Advani. “All of you together made a rule that BJP leaders will retire after the age of 75 years. This law was widely publicised and under this rule many BJP leaders like Advani ji and Murli Manohar Joshi ji were retired…Now Amit Shah ji says that the rule will not be applicable to Modi ji. Do you agree that the rule under which Advani ji was retired will not be applicable to Modi ji now? The rule should not be equal for everyone,” the AAP chief asked the RSS chief.
The former Delhi chief minister also asked Bhagwat how he felt when BJP chief JP Nadda said his party did not need the RSS, which is the saffron party’s ideological mentor.
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