Mallikarjun Kharge: No question of Rahul Gandhi attending RSS event

Senior Congress parliamentarian and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, on Wednesday confirmed that there is no question of Rahul Gandhi or anybody from the party attending an RSS event. He was replying to the reports which said that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is planning to invite in their event, scheduled for next month.

Terming these invitations as elections-oriented, Kharge said, as reported in TOI, “Let the letter (of invitation) come first. This (invitation) is all in view of elections.” Kharge, who is also the Maharashtra in-charge for Congress Party, was addressing the media after his meeting with the state party members.

Even after securing more seats in Karnataka Assembly elections, Congress gave away the chief minister’s post to keep BJP out of power. Fighting an ideological battle with the BJP, Kharge said, as quoted by the daily, “In Karnataka, a small regional party (Janata Dal-Secular) has 37 MLAs and we have 80. But we gave up the chief minister’s post to that party to strengthen secular forces. So there is no question of (Gandhi or any other Congress leader) going to the RSS headquarters.”

Asked if he would attend the event, if Rahul Gandhi says him, Kharge said, “If Rahul sahab asks me about going there (to the RSS event) I will tell him that there is no question of going there. That there is no intention of joining such people.”

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