Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh said on Wednesday that there was a need for maintaining a close vigil on the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS).
Mr Singh, while addressing a press conference, however, ruled out a ban on the RSS and said, “They have over 150 organisations and all of them cannot be banned. All we need to do is to keep a watch on their activities.”
Mr Singh’s statement comes a day after a RSS activist claimed to have planted a bomb in Samjhauta Express.
Replying to a question, Mr Singh said that it was wrong to assume that the arrest in the Samjhauta blast case was made to coincide with the UP polls. “The first RSS arrest was made in 2002 and investigations have been on since then. Had the arrested person been a Muslim, the RSS attitude would have been different. The person arrested is a close associate of RSS leaders and has confessed to planting bomb in Samjhauta,” he stated.
Mr Singh further said that outfits like Simi and Bajrang Dal were two faces of the same coin and both were also hand-in-glove when it came to pitting the two communities against each other.
Replying to a question on yoga guru Baba Ramdev, the Congress leader termed him as a “self-styled” leader and said that he should first reply to notices by the ED before talking politics.