A day after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat claimed his organisation could assemble its cadres to fight much faster than the Indian Army could in the event of a war, Bihar Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday dared the former to dispatch an army of RSS workers to Doklam to fight the Chinese military. Bhagwat is currently on 10-day visit to Bihar.

“If Mohan Bhagwat has guts, he should send RSS men to the border at Doklam to fight the Chinese military who have intruded into our country. Why are you holed up? Pakistan too is routinely attacking India,” Tejashwi tweeted, asking the RSS chief to stop insulting the Indian army.

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He also asked to reveal the names of RSS leaders, if any, who has lost his family members fighting for the nation, and alleged that RSS people had no role to play in the freedom of the country.

The no-holds-barred attacks came a day after Bhagwat reportedly claimed what the Indian army can prepare in six months, the RSS could do it in just three days. He added the RSS could “take charge of the security if the constitution permits”. He reportedly made these observations while addressing the volunteers in Muzaffarpur.

The RSS, however, issued a clarification on Sunday as Bhagwat’s remarks generated controversy. “Bhagwatji meant to say that if situation arises and the Constitution permits, Indian army would take six months to prepare the society whereas Sangh swayamasevaks can be trained in 3 days, as Swayamsevaks practise discipline regularly,” clarified Manmohan Vaidya, RSS’s Akhil Bhartiya Prachar Pramukh, in a written statement on Sunday.

Tejashwi who served as the deputy chief minister in the previous Grand Alliance government also hit out at chief minister Nitish Kumar for defending the RSS chief’s statements.

“The man who advocated for “Sangh-mukt” India is now defending ‘Sangh-yukt’ India. He doesn’t have any stand,” remarked Tejashwi in an oblique reference to the chief minister. While addressing a rally in UP in August 2016, the Bihar chief minister had given a call for “Sangh-mukt Bharat”.

“What is wrong in it? As per information he spoke about readiness of his organisation for the defending country’s border. It should be welcomed. I don’t think there is any harm in that,” Kumar said after the newsmen sought his comment over the issue on Sunday.