Launching a counter-attack at Minister Priyank Kharge and Congress leader B.K. Hariprasad for their tirade against the RSS, the BJP on Sunday said it appeared that the Congress had deputed them exclusively to target the outfit.
The BJP also took to social media where it posted a picture of AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, the father of Mr. Priyank Kharge, visiting the venue of ‘Samarasta Samavesha’ of the RSS held at Nagawara in Bengaluru in 2002 as the then Home Minister to cooperate with the organisers.
“Today, you are spewing venom against the RSS. But have you forgotten that in 2002, during the Samarasta Sangama programme held in Nagawara, Bengaluru, your father Mr. Kharge, who was the Home Minister at the time, personally visited that camp, appreciated the social work of the RSS, and provided full cooperation?,” the BJP posted.
In another social media post, BJP State president B.Y. Vijayendra said: “Chorus and chants of Bharat Mata Ki Jai, resonated by both the young and the old from RSS shakhas, seem to have unnerved those used to hearing Pakistan Zindabad slogans.”
He alleged: “The Congress government, which has no issues with those plotting bomb blasts from across the borders of our State, is now seeing crime in the RSS activities, whose sole aim is the Sarvangeena Unnati of Bharat.”
He said that successive Congress governments had repeatedly planned and plotted to ban the RSS, but had failed utterly owing to the RSS ideology of nationalism and social reforms.
He warned that “Karnataka, which is described as the proud daughter of Bharat Mata by Kuvempu will never tolerate any backstabbing against its own motherland.”
Published – October 13, 2025 12:26 am IST
