"The company is for farmers and the allegations against Gadkari are meaningless, baseless and hopeless"
All the seven founder promoters of Purti Power and Sugar Limited, the company founded and run by BJP president Nitin Gadkari and his associates are somehow or the other related to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Mr. Gadkari’s RSS connections are well known but all the other promoters and some directors of the Purti Power and Sugar Limited have strong RSS background.
Jaykumar Verma, Deputy Chairman and the whole time director of the Purti Power and Sugar Limited is also one of the founder promoters of the company. Currently a BJP Zilla Parishad member, Jaykumar Verma used to take part in the RSS shakhas in Bela village near which the Purti Power and Sugar Limited is situated. On every Vijayadashami, he used to take out the RSS processions in Bela village and he would be in full RSS uniform, according to the villagers.
“Yes, I am a Sangh Swayamsevak” Mr. Verma told The Hindu.
Another founder promoter Manohar Narhari Mendhjoge alias Annaji is also an RSS member. Mr. Annaji was also the director of Shikshak Sahkari Bank and deputy chairman of Purti Limited before Mr. Verma. He was in jail for 18 months during the Emergency.
Asked if he was associated with the RSS, Mr. Annaji said, “Why do you want to bring the RSS into this? Purti is for ‘kastakar’ [farmers] and the allegations against Nitin [Gadkari] are meaningless, baseless and hopeless.”
Another founding promoter of Purti Limited, Giridhari Mantri, is the brother of Ramesh Mantri who is considered to be very close to the RSS. Mr. Ramesh Mantri even fought elections as a BJP candidate from the Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency in 1999. According to sources, the entire Girdhari family is hardcore RSS. But Girdhari Manti said that he did not hold any post in the RSS or the BJP.
Other founder promoters are Arun Hanumandasji Lakhani, Vithal Jogobaji Raut and Anandrao Motiramji Raut.
Its to be noted that not just the assosciation but If they too are involved in Gadkari's Fraud, are they using their clout to protect themselves and Gadkari in BJP
what is wrong in being associated with RSS. it is one of the most organised and patriotic organisations in the world.
there are many muslim swayamsevaks as well in RSS
Gadkari is an RSS member and obviously his first circle of friends would be from RSS. Does this newspiece mean RSS members cannot be directors or promoters?
RSS is not a secessionist or anti-national organization. Its record of self-less social service is too well known. In 1977 its cadres helped re-build stretches of villages devasted by cyclone. In 2001 Gunjarat earthquake and 2004 tsunami, its members helped the disposal of the deceased. The foreign funded NGOs like Teesta Setalvad, trade on corpses. There is nothing newsworthy to write that Purti management is connected with RSS..
I don't under stand this news. How does it matter if these people are associated with RSS. Assuming these people made misappropirations, accusing their belief and associations are not meaningful. If a person had made a mistake, pointing to a lady as a mother of the person who made the mistake is not right or ethical and this could be only on the intention of tarnishing the mother's image. Don't you feel this is unethical?
If Vadra is accused of malpractices in DLF land deals, we cannot say Jawaharlal Nehru's great grand son-in-law had commited mistake.
People might misread your content.
Why is such big hue & cry made out of the RSS association of the
Founders / Directors of Purti? Is there any law that prohibits it? When
there can be so many communal groups / associations in India some even
with the patronage of the government,why not the RSS?
So what? Being RSS member do you mean that they should not be part of any company? This article is meaningless. If you take Congress Politicians that they are surving because of corrupt money. HINDU is supporter of corrupt Congress & DMK leaders
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