It's “cheap tactics,” says RSS

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has rejected allegations that planned to create disturbances in the country using the issue of corruption as a ploy.

RSS general secretary said in a statement the government was leading a “vicious campaign against the RSS,” attributing motives to it and saying that the organisation wanted to create disturbances and disorder in the country. Mr. Joshi described these allegations as “cheap tactics” by the government.

The response to yoga guru Baba Ramdev and Gandhian activist Anna Hazare was indicative of the “collective anger” of the people on the issue. The government, however, had remained stubborn and insensitive, choosing to adopt a dictatorial stance through the “barbaric” police action against peaceful protestors at the Ramlila Maidan. Although Mr. Joshi did not name Home Minister P. Chidambaram, he was clearly responding to the Minister's widely reported statements at a press conference that the RSS was behind the recent events.

Mr. Chidambaram had said the RSS had political motives and wanted to destabilise the polity. He referred to a resolution passed by the RSS at Puttur in Karnataka on March 10 supporting Ramdev. Mr. Joshi urged the government to shed its “devious and deceitful” attitude against leaders of the anti-corruption movement and work towards bringing back to the country black money held by Indians abroad.