Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Thursday that it is not correct to call the RSS and its associated groups ‘Sangh Parivar’, as a family has women, respect for the elderly, compassion, and affection, and the organization has nothing of this.
Gandhi’s remarks come a day after he said that the alleged harassment of nuns belonging to a Kerala-based congregation in Uttar Pradesh was the result of Sangh Parivar’s “vicious propaganda” to turn one community against another and trample on minorities.
In a Hindi tweet on Thursday, he said that he will no longer refer to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh as ‘Sangh Parivar’, a united family. “I think it is not correct to call the RSS and associated organizations Sangh Parivar – there are women in the family, there is respect for the elderly, a sense of compassion and affection – which is not there in the RSS,” he said on Twitter.
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