Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh on Monday said the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the BJP are silent on former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s questions posed to Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat.
Kejriwal, who is the national Convenor of the AAP, while addressing the ‘Janata Ki Adalat’ on Sunday asked five questions to the RSS chief. One of the questions asked was it right for the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “break legislators from other parties to topple their government through allurement or use of Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) threat”.
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, Singh said, “AAP’s national Convenor Kejriwal has asked only five questions to Mohan Bhagwat, the head of RSS, an organisation which calls itself a ‘patriot’ and nationalist. These questions are related to principles, integrity, and truth.”
Referring to the five questions, the AAP MP said, “Kejriwal’s first question is whether the RSS, which calls itself patriotic and nationalist, agrees with the fact that today the BJP has become a kidnapping gang. The BJP has turned into a gang that defects leaders of other political parties. Is it right for the BJP to coerce MLAs, MPs, and other members of other parties, and topple governments by threatening them with the ED-CBI or enticing them with crores of rupees? What is the RSS chief’s opinion on this?”
Attacking the PM, he said, “The leaders whom PM Modi has called the most corrupt in the country — according to a report — the BJP made serious allegations of corruption against 23 opposition leaders, yet gave them a clean chit by including them in its party.”
Taking a jibe at the RSS, Singh said, “RSS claims to uphold moral values. It was the responsibility of the RSS to oversee the BJP and ensure that it does not stray from its values, and if it does, to restrain it. Did Mohan Bhagwat ever attempt to curb the BJP’s corruption and such actions? Does he agree or disagree with these actions?”
Heaping praise on Kejriwal, he said, “Arvind Kejriwal is the only person in India who has given up the post of Chief Minister not once but twice, on grounds of integrity and principles, stating that he will fight for principles, honesty, and truth.”
“It is an open book for the country that, on one side, there is a true and honest leader like Arvind Kejriwal, who fights for honesty and truth by giving up the Chief Minister’s chair twice, and on the other side, there is the Prime Minister Modi, who does not want to relinquish his chair even at 75 years of age,” said Singh.
The AAP leader added, “This is the difference between Arvind Kejriwal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mohan Bhagwat and the BJP must answer Arvind Kejriwal’s five questions.”