BJP leader Dhananjaya Kumar took strong exception to Smt Sonia Gandhi’s statement in Bidar calling BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Sri Lal Krishna Advani as a slave of RSS.

Sri Dhananjay Kumar

He explained that RSS is a nationalist organization that moulds the personality of the people and said “BJP is not afraid but is proud and happy of being a slave of RSS.  By calling Advani a RSS slave Sonia Gandhi has inadvertently and indirectly accepted the fact that she is the boss and all others in the Congress including Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh are nothing but puppets in her hands”.
Recalling the selfless services rendered by RSS to the country Dhananjaya Kumar questioned Sonia Gandhi’s knowledge about the RSS which, he said was formed even before she was born.  “RSS has been in the forefront whenever the country had faced tragedies like floods, earthquakes, accidents etc., rendering unselfish service in times of difficulties.  Even during the 1962 war with China RSS volunteers led from the front providing succour to the soldiers in the Himalaya region braving the harsh winter”, he said. He further added that it was this noble service rendered by RSS that had prompted the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to invite RSS to participate in the Republic Day Parade held in Delhi in 1953 in which RSS had participated.
He said the BJP need not learn a lesson from Sonia Gandhi whose allegiance to Indian constitution itself is doubtful.
He reminded Smt Sonia Gandhi that the Congress had banned RSS in 1975 during emergency when she had not even acquired the citizenship of India and party lost power for the first time in the elections held in 1978.  Today the   Congress is once again facing the ghost of RSS in the form of a defeat in the coming elections, he declared.
Giving details about BJP’s prospects in the state in the ensuing elections he stated that all the poll surveys have predicted more than 15 seats for the BJP in the state.  However, according to the internal surveys conducted by the BJP the party will romp home 22 to 24 seats in these elections in Karnataka, he said.