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BJP is a creature of RSS: Karat

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat has said that L. K. Advani's resignation from the presidentship of the Bharatiya Janata Party and his subsequent withdrawal of the resignation three days later underlines the fact that the BJP "is a creature of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh."

"Only those with illusions about the true nature of the party expected any real defiance and break with the RSS ideology," Mr. Karat said in a statement issued here on Saturday. It was not at all surprising that "this latest intellectual effort to legitimise communal politics has fallen flat." The only good that has come out of the entire affair is that India-Pakistan relations continue to be on the path of progress.

The resolution adopted by the BJP office-bearers has foreclosed Mr. Advani's depiction of Jinnah as a secularist. "The BJP has made it clear that it will not countenance any departure from the RSS view. Jinnah was demonised by Hindu communalists as solely responsible for [the] Partition. Their vision cannot be accepted by any objective view. The Muslim League led by Jinnah played the main role in the formation of Pakistan. At the same time, Hindu communalists made an equal contribution towards communalising politics and facilitating the two-nation theory. In this category falls the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha of Savarkar," he said.

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