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RSS urged to come out in the open

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, AUG. 19 . Close on the heels of the Human Resource Development Minister, Arjun Singh, taking on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, (RSS) another Congress MP has said that it was time the "cultural" organisation became a political entity. "They should come out in the open instead of sending people on `deputation' to political parties," said the Rajya Sabha MP, R.K. Anand, at a news conference here today.

He said one reason for the RSS' claim as a cultural organisation was the huge foreign funds received by its frontal outfits for "social purposes" whereas they were actually operating as a political organisation.

In a "notice" sent to the RSS, Mr. Anand said that after reading various books, periodicals and historical documents, he found their activities to be political in nature. The "very fact that top leaders of the RSS have been sent to the BJP clearly establishes that the RSS is nothing but a political organisation. In fact, RSS acts as a springboard to fulfil the needs of the BJP."

The Congress MP and lawyer dared the RSS to file a case against him for his remarks against the organisation so that its "true nature" was revealed in the court.

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