India would have become another Pakistan if RSS wasn't there: Karnataka minister
Karnataka Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Chauhan on Wednesday said that if Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was not there India would have become another Pakistan.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh members (Representational photo) | Photo Credit: BCCL
Key Highlights
- RSS a patriot organisation: Karnataka Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Chauhan
- BJP has been 'Talibanised': Congress
- Siddaramaiah is a 'terrorist': Karnataka BJP chief
Bengaluru: Karnataka Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Chauhan on Wednesday said that if Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was not there India would have become another Pakistan.
"The RSS is the patriot organisation that is safeguarding the country. India is safe under the RSS. Indian people nowhere need to be scared for any country or forces," the Karnataka minister said.
Chauhan made the comments while responding to Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) leader and former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy's remark on the Sangh alleging that the RSS had trained 4,000 civil servants in the country (IAS, IPS officers) who are now part of the Indian bureaucracy. The Animal Husbandry Minister Chauhan said the RSS is the reason that India is not becoming another Pakistan.
He termed the RSS a patriot organisation and stressed that India is safe under Sangh.
"The RSS is the patriot organisation that is safeguarding the country. India is safe under the RSS. Indian people nowhere need to be scared for any country or forces," Chauhan said.
"JD(S) and Kumarswamy must understand that they don't have any credibility to speak about RSS," he added.
In September 2021, Karnataka Opposition leader Siddaramaiah had taken aim at BJP and Sangh saying that India got Independence because of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, and not the RSS.
The Congress leader had also stoked a huge controversy by equating Taliban with the RSS and the BJP.
"Whoever does not believe in humanity is Taliban. The BJP and the RSS do not have faith in humanism. They do not believe in democratic values," Siddaramaiah had said.
Karnataka state BJP chief Nalin Kumar Kateel had taken strong objection to Siddaramaiah's comment and termed the senior Congress leader as a terrorist.
