BJP needs chemotherapy, says RSS chief

Jaipur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday advicing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders to resolve their internal squabbles suggested that the party needs a “surgery” or a “chemotherapy” treatment.

“As far as BJP is concerned, whatever surgery, medicine, chemotherapy is essential for them, it has to be diagnosed by them (BJP),” he said at a press conference in Jaipur.

During his visit to Delhi in August, Bhagwat had advised BJP leaders to resolve their internal squabbles.

“If they (BJP) need any organisational help, if they ask for it, we will provide them help,” he had said.

Meanwhile, BJP president Rajnath Singh didn’t like Bhagwat’s suggestion.

“Our morale is high. Who is saying this,” Rajnath said when asked if the party needed a surgery.

However, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said, “The doctor can only talk about treatment, we are patients.”

Reacting to the Vasundhara Raje’s episode in Rajasthan, Bhagwat said it was for the BJP and its leadership to find a solution.

On the issue of Marathi manoos, which was a key issue during the Maharashtra polls, the RSS chief said, “Every Indian belongs to India. There are various languages and religions which have their own identity. Hindutva for us is considering them as part of one (entity) and we do not believe in things like Marathi pride.”

Bhagwat said RSS workers were trying to achieve a better coordination with BJP and fill up gaps, if any.

On his meeting with former vice president BS Shekhawat, the RSS chief said there was nothing political in it.

“Shekhawat has been a Swayamsevak and at present he is not keeping too well,” he said.

When asked about his recent controversial statement in Delhi that BJP could rise from the ashes, Bhagwat said he never meant that BJP should first be reduced to cinders and then it should rise from the ashes.

“I do not play politics nor am I an astrologer who could predict when the party would rise from the ashes,” he said.

“BJP can rise from a scratch, it has a strong capability,” he added.

On the outcome of recent assembly polls in three states, Bhagwat said politicians should respect the public mandate what ever it might be.

Reacting to the India-China border issue, he said, “India should be aware of China’s activities on the borders”.

“For the last 50 years China has followed a policy to acquire the land and territory,” the RSS leader said.

On the alleged involvement of Sanatan Sanstha in the Goa blast, he said, “No such allegation has yet been proved. RSS has nothing to do with the Sanatan group. Without proof no one can be blamed. The Sanatan people have been working there for a long time.”