New Delhi:
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS today filed a complaint with the Karnataka Election Commission against Rahul Gandhi for his comments blaming it for Mahatma Gandhi's assassination. The complaint was filed by RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav.
The Congress vice president was criticising the BJP at an election rally in Maharashtra on Thursday, when he referred to the Opposition party's ideological mentor, the RSS.
"They killed Gandhi. RSS people shot Gandhi dead. And today their people (BJP) talk about Gandhi. Sardar Patel was a Congress leader, he has written clearly about RSS, and today they (BJP) tell Congress that Sardar Patel is our leader," the 43-year-old said at the rally in Thane district, his last on a two-day tour of the state.
Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead on January 30, 1948, by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu activist. Sardar Patel, India's first home minister, had then banned the RSS but revoked it within eight months, stating that the organisation had nothing to do with the killing.
Rahul Gandhi had last month said BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi believed in an organisation like the RSS, whose "poisonous mentality" killed Gandhi. At the time, the Sangh said it would not react to "kindergarten comments" and Rahul should read history closely.