A day after the Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi hit out at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, saying that the >RSS ideology killed Mahatma Gandhi, veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani said his association with the RSS gave meaning to his life.
“I found meaning when I left my home and family to work as a pracharak of the RSS, first in Karachi and later, after being uprooted by Partition, in Rajasthan. That meaning got further enriched when I embarked on a political journey 55 years ago, first as a worker of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and later of the BJP. It is a journey that has not yet ended,” the BJP patriarch wrote in his blog.
Mr. Advani, 86, joined the RSS when he was fourteen.