Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (MS)
Bengaluru, Nov 23: "I am not the founder of RSS. I am a Swayamsevak (volunteer) of Sangh. Dr Keshava Balirama Hegadewar took Bhagavad flag and the ideology that ideals are greater than human being as his guru," tweeted BJP national general secretary C T Ravi.
This tweet of C T Ravi was in reply to the question of former chief minister and leader of opposition Siddaramaiah, who had questioned C T Ravi that whether he is the founder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) or the accomplice of Hegadewar.
Siddaramaiah (left) and C T Ravi
Taunting Siddaramaiah further, Ravi said, "The Sangh teaches the volunteers that country comes first. Little for self and everything for the society kind of ideology. You have to attend Shakha of RSS if you have to understand this and also live without casteism and untouchability feeling that we are all children of Bharath Matha.
"I will not ask you whether you are the grandson of A O Hume, who founded Congress. I will not say also that you are the step son of late Indira Gandhi. I will not accuse you that you changed party for the sake of power. But would like to tell you that nationalism is better than dynasty and casteism.
"In the party in which you are at present vote bank is more important than the country. Your party follows dynasty politics and not democracy. Who is there to teach lesson of patriotism to Congress party members who have gone out of the way?
"Mahatma Gandhi is not alive today. Congress has totally discarded his ideology during the time of Nehru itself. In order to understand patriotism in a simple manner, the Shakha of RSS is the best way. That is why I have contacted the public. How many more days you will continue selfish and cheating politics? It is left to you,” Ravi stated in his tweets.