Bangalore: BJP claims Aseemanand interview on RSS terror role 'fictitious'

From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore

Bangalore, Feb 7: The allegations by Swami Aseemanand  on the role of RSS in terror activities in different parts of the country as made out from  the interview published in the ''Caravan” magazine are ''totally fictitious,” claimed the BJP on Friday.
 
BJP national spokesperson, Meenakshi Lekhi, who spoke to reporters in Bangalore on Friday, said the startling revelations about the alleged role of RSS in terror activities was nothing but a Congress conspiracy to stop the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s march to Delhi.
 
Lekhi suspected the credibility of the magazine and questioned why the whole issue was timed just two months before the elections.

She said it was clear that the entire story published in the magazine was nothing but a Congress conspiracy.

They have done many things in the past to implicate the BJP, he said pointing out that from Ishrat Jahan case to Gujarat riots and have been unable to tarnish the image of Modi.

''They (Congressmen) even now will not succeed and nobody can prevent Modi from becoming the Prime Minister, when the entire country is rooting for him,” she said.

Swamy Aseemanand’s lawyer, too, issued a statement denying that his client had given any interview making such claims to Caravan magazine, Lekhi said.

The Congress, which was hand-in-glove with the Aam Aadmy Party, has been raking up old issues to divert the attention of the public from real issues such as corruption, price rise, and involvement of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her family members in several cases, including in Agusta Westland helicopter deal, she claimed.

Lekhi said allegations against RSS chief Mohan Bhagawat were ''a politically motivated design’’ by the Congress party.

''Congress party knows that they have no answers to the burning issues such as unemployment, continuous of insurgents by China and accidents in Indian Navy and ill governance by the Manmohan Singh Government. Therefore, these diversionary tactics are being deployed by them to stop the march of the BJP in the coming elections to the Lok Sabha,’’ she said.

The BJP leader challenged the Congress leaders to first ensure that the party was able to cross the double digit mark.