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CPI(M) joins issue with RSS

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, AUG. 12 . Close on the heels of the Congress leader, Arjun Singh, daring the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to go ahead and sue him for his remarks linking the RSS to Mahatma's assassination, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) too joined issue with the RSS.

An editorial in the CPM (M)'s paper, People's Democracy, said that the well-known writer A.G. Noorani had documented systematic evidence in his recent book on the Mahatma's assassination. Also, Nathuram Godse's brother, Gopal Godse, recently had gone on record that Nathuram, along with all his brothers, including Gopal, was a member of the RSS. "Only after the assassination, at the request of the RSS, Nathuram denied his association. When told that L.K. Advani denies this, he called Mr. Advani a `coward'," it said.

Reacting to the BJP's counter-charge against the Left parties on the issue of "detoxification" of education, the editorial said the RSS/BJP was seeking to mask by hurling "libellous charges that the restoration of the content of Indian education was in line with the Indian Constitution was being done under the pressure of the Marxist."

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