By IANS,
Bhubaneswar : The Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Wednesday criticized Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi for equating the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
His statement came hours after Gandhi Wednesday branded the sangh parivar outfit as “fanatical” and equated it with the outlawed SIMI.
“I know only that both the SIMI and the RSS are fanatical and hold fundamentalist views,” Gandhi told reporters in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh.
“I never expected Rahul Gandhi to turn so senile early in life so as to forget the difference between patriots and anti-nationals,” the Bajrang Dal’s national chief Subhash Chauhan said in a written statement issued here.
“His lack of knowledge is pathetic given the fact that the SIMI is a proscribed outfit. This is just a routine rootless statement from him (Rahul Gandhi) aimed at cultivating a minority vote bank,” he said.
“The RSS needs no one’s certificate and the least from Rahul Gandhi. He is privy to his ridiculous opinion,” he said.