“Low level politics”: RSS hits back at Rahul on Congress video

TIL Desk/National/Nagpur/ On a day Rahul Gandhi put up a video highlighting the “anti-Dalit” statements of BJP and RSS leaders, the Sangh hit back and accused the Congress president of indulging in “low level politics” and misguiding the society with “lies”.

“Rahul Gandhi in his official FB page has posted lies about me and RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat that we want to abolish the reservation given to the SCs and STs in the Constitution, which is absolutely baseless and false without any official reference or source,” RSS joint general secretary Manmohan Vaidya said in a statement issued here.

Mr Gandhi on Sunday targeted the BJP-RSS for their “anti-Dalit” mindset and alleged that as per the “fascist ideology” of these outfits, Dalits should continue to remain on the bottom rung of society. He also questioned the “silence” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the rising incidents of atrocities against Dalits in the country.

The two-minute-long video put up by Gandhi cites incidents of alleged atrocities, including the flogging of a few Dalit men in Gujarat’s Una in 2016 and the recent SC/ST markings on the chest of Dalit candidates during a recruitment exam in Madhya Pradesh.