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RSS questions Nitish Kumar's 'secular PM' comments
Sunday June 24, 2012 07:10:27 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: In a
veiled attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for insisting
on a secular prime minister, the RSS has sought to know why there
was such aversion for Hindutva in India.
"What is the meaning of saying (that the) prime minister should be
secular?" the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's mouthpiece Panchajanya
asked in an editorial.
"Our constitution makers did not give any such 'distinguished
identity' to the prime minister's post, perhaps because they
believed that India has always stood for eternal values, religion
and culture, and the basis of our society and national life is the
feeling of all-inclusiveness and mutual existence," it said.
The editorial said a prime minister's responsibility as head of
the central government was to protect the democratic values and
the rights of all without any discrimination.
Comments about the need for a secular prime minister were being
made "for vote-bank politics and minority appeasement", it said.
The RSS mouthpiece did not name Nitish Kumar or his party, the
Janata Dal-United.
Nitish Kumar has said that the National Democratic Alliance's
prime ministerial candidate should be secular and liberal.
With elections nearly two years away, the NDA or the BJP has yet
to name a prime ministerial candidate.
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