New Delhi: RSS on Saturday dissociated itself from a controversial article published in its Malayalam mouthpiece that Nathuram Godse should have targeted Jawaharlal Nehru instead of Mahatma Gandhi as he was responsible for Partition, a view that came under attack from political parties.
“RSS strongly condemns the controversial article published in ‘Kesari’ Malayalam journal in Kerala on October 17, 2014. The views published therein are exclusively that of the writer and the RSS has nothing to do with it,” RSS’s national prachar pramukh Manmohan Vaidya said in a statement.
The RSS statement in the wake of a newspaper report on the on the article written by Gopalakrishnan, a BJP candidate in the recent Lok Sabha elections in Kerala, in the latest issue of “Kesari” in which he had also said Nehru never had any genuine attachment with the Father of the Nation.
Vaidya said the RSS, as a movement, has always condemned any kind of violence in thought or action and hence does not subscribe to the views expressed by Gopalakrishnan. “We, as a movement, not only dissociate ourselves from such views but also deplore them. RSS has always condemned any kind of violence in thought or action in the strongest possible words,” Vaidya further said. The Congress in Kerala also expressed strong resentment against the article. (PTI)