Congress manifesto for November 28 Assembly polls in the state vows to ban shakhas of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on government premises.
BHOPAL: Amid the row over the Congress’s election promise to ban government servants from attending RSS shakhas in Madhya Pradesh, the party’s senior leader Digvijay Singh said on Tuesday that such a prohibition already exists for Central government employees.
The opposition party’s manifesto for November 28 Assembly polls in the state vows to ban shakhas of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on government premises and stop government employees from attending RSS shakhas.
“Ninety-five per cent of the promises made by the Congress, about farmers, women, youth, poor, tribals, Dalits, etc., are being ignored, and an issue which is already in practise under the Narendra Modi government at the Centre is being discussed,” Mr Singh told reporters in Bhopal.
“There is an order, still in force, which says no Central government employee and official can attend RSS shakhas. Holding shakhas in government buildings or premises is also not allowed,” he said.
Such orders are in force in many states too, he claimed.
“In Madhya Pradesh too this rule existed under the Jan Sangh and BJP governments under (then chief ministers) Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha, Kailash Joshi, Sundarlal Patwa, Uma Bharti and Babulal Gaur. We have only pledged to continue it. RSS was once banned by (country’s first home minister) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel following Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination,” he said.
Source: NDTV
