File photo: Digvijaya Singh
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today took potshots at the BJP over announcing
Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate, saying the party had succumbed to threats from its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS. (
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"BJP succumbs to threats of RSS and Ramdev and declares Modi as BJP's PM candidate. Do we still call RSS as a Cultural Organisation?" the Congress General Secretary said on micro-blogging site Twitter. (
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Mr Modi was yesterday anointed as the PM candidate by the BJP after a go-ahead from the RSS. It ignored the opposition from party patriarch LK Advani to Mr Modi's elevation.
Mr Singh's party colleague Shakeel Ahmad saw a larger conspiracy by BJP President Rajnath Singh in Mr Modi's elevation.
He wondered if the move was an attempt to sideline the 85-year-old Mr Advani and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, both of whom were contenders for the PM post till yesterday.
"Is Rajnatj Ji with the help of RSS using Modi Ji to sideline Advani Ji & Sushma Ji for his own chance, when Modi Ji will be rejected in 2014?" Mr Ahmad had said on Twitter.