Hindu Mahasabha backs RaGa over ‘RSS killed Gandhiji’ statement

MEERUT: A day after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi refused to tender an apology in a criminal defamation case against him for his 2014 statement that “RSS killed Gandhiji” and drew flak from the Supreme Court for the same, Hindu Mahasabha members on Wednesday claimed that there was nothing wrong in the statement.
“BJP and RSS were in unison with Nathuram Godse when the decision to kill Mahatma Gandhi was taken.In fact, it was only two hours after Mahatma Gandhi was shot that the members of RSS went to Jawaharlal Nehru and said that they will eliminate Hindu Mahasabha. Godse was very much a part of RSS and Hindu Mahasabha and it is sad that after he gave his life for a noble cause, politics is being played over him,” said Pandit Ashok Sharma, national vice president, Hindu Mahasabha.
This came a day after Rahul Gandhi refused to apologise in the case filed by RSS worker Rajesh Kunte and Supreme Court asked him to be ready to face trial if he was not prepared to beg pardon. The bench perused the HC judgment and told Raval, “The judgment says Godse was an RSS worker. On this basis, you (Rahul Gandhi) cannot make a collective denunciation (that RSS killed Gandhiji). If you had said some people from RSS had killed Gandhiji, it would have been different. But you said RSS killed Gandhiji.”
Commenting on whether Nathuram Godse was linked with RSS or not, Chandra Prakash Kaushik, national president, Hindu Mahasabha, said, “Godse was a nationalist writer linked with RSS and Hindu Mahasabha. It is wrong for the RSS to say that Godse had no link with them. We have no qualms in accepting the fact that he was linked to Hindu Mahasabha, and we celebrate his birthday too, but it is high time that RSS accepts this too.”