Bangalore: 2014 polls will be Congress vs RSS fight, not BJP: Jairam Ramesh
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Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Oct 24: In a bid to expose the pretensions of the RSS of being a nationalist cultural outfit with no political interests even while playing a key role in controlling the political decisions in BJP, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said the ensuing lok sabha polls in 2014 will witness a fight between Congress and RSS and not the BJP.
''The BJP is a wholly owned subsidiary” of the Sangh Parivar fountainhead, the Congress leader said.
Hitting out at BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Ramesh said the opposition party was only projecting Modi while ''We are asking people to vote for our party and its ideology.”
“What has happened in the last few months has given proof of the fact that 2014 is not Congress versus BJP battle but the fight is between Congress and RSS, because whatever the RSS orders, BJP follows,” Ramesh said.
Talking to reporters at the KPCC office in Bangalore on Thursday, he said: “What happened in the last 12 to 15 months is proof enough it was required to buttress the point that the BJP is a wholly owned subsidiary of the holding company based in Nagpur called the RSS.”
Claiming that BJP had lost its ground due to recent developments, Ramesh said 2014 would be a battle between Congress ideology and RSS ideology.
“It will be battle between ideologies of Congress and regional parties,” he asserted.
Lambasting BJP and Modi, Ramesh said the Congress election strategy was not about projecting any one individual.
''Now, one individual is saying to the country I, I and I; I, me, myself that is his message to the country, that is the stand of an individual who has been named as the prime ministerial candidate by a party,” he said targeting Modi.
''Rahul Gandhi’s style is very much low key. He speaks not about I, me, myself but instead speaks about democratising the Congress party from the grassroot level. He speaks about plans to address some serious issues that is facing the country today,” Ramesh said.
“At the end of the day, voter has to decide.We are projecting the Congress party and BJP is projecting Modi and that is the fundamental difference between us. We are asking people to vote for our party and its ideology. Whether we get votes or not is different but this is our strategy,” he said.