Digvijay targets Sri Sri, renews attack on RSS-BJP
Thursday October 27, 2011 07:23:17 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Congress
general secretary Digvijay Singh Thursday renewed his attack on
the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) saying the RSS was using spiritual gurus to divert
attention from its terror activities.
Singh said as part of the overall plan, the RSS first used yoga
guru Baba Ramdev, then Anna Hazare and was now planning to utilise
spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who would soon start a
campaign against corruption.
"I have been saying from day one, that all this is a part of the
overall plan of the BJP-RSS combine. Plan A: Baba Ramdev, plan B:
Anna, plan C: Sri Sri Ravishankar Maharaj," said Singh.
"They want to divert the attention of people of this country from
the issue of involvement of Sangh activists in terror," he said.
He advised the spiritual guru to stay away from the RSS.
"I request Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji not to get involved in this."
The spiritual guru downplayed the comment and instead asked Singh
to join his Art of Living course.
"People write a lot of things about everyone, I cannot respond to
all of them," Ravi Shankar said adding: "I will continue to work
against corruption. I am not afraid of anyone."
He further said that while legislation was needed to combat
corruption, "a law alone cannot bring down corruption. A moral and
spiritual wave has to be created".
Digvijay Singh said while the Congress has taken steps to check
corruption, the BJP has not done much.
"UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government has taken all
possible steps," he said, referring to the Right to Information
Act and the jailing of allegedly corrupt politicians, officials
and company executives.
"Why did BJP not register a case against Bangaru Laxman when he
was caught taking money on tape? Why a case was not registered
against Jaya Jaitley when she was caught on tape striking a deal
with an arms dealer in the defence minister's house," he asked.
The BJP hit back.
"Digvijay Singh may make any plan he likes, he will only destroy
the reputation of the Congress in the country," BJP leader Ravi
Shankar Prasad said.
"The country is angry over black money and corruption. Whoever
speaks against it, whether Baba Ramdev or Annaji or civil society,
he (Digvijay) goes ... against all of them and says all kinds of
things," he said.
Digvijay Singh had earlier targeted the RSS for supporting Anna
and had even questioned the credentials of the activist.
Hazare too had recently hit out against a "gang of four" in the
UPA government, which, he said was opposed to the Jan Lokpal bill
and was carrying out a systematic "character assassination" of his
team members.
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