Netaji’s Ideology was always opposed to RSS Worldview: Congress

NEW DELHI: The Congress questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “vitriolic and conspiratorial attempt to appropriate the legacy of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose” on the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Azad Hind government as it sought to refute the PM’s allegation that erstwhile Congress governments had overlooked the late freedom fighter’s legacy.

Party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the PM’s attempt to “hijack the legacy of leaders such as Netaji” signified that the BJP and the RSS lacked an idol of their own during the freedom movement, and that Netaji’s ideology was always opposed to the RSS worldview.

“Those who do not have their own ideas and idol, and have zero contribution in the national movement of freedom struggle, try to attribute and appropriate the legacy of our freedom fighters, in an attempt to be perceived ‘nationalist’,” Singhvi said at a presser.


“Today Prime Minister Narendra Modi desperately tried to do the same.... Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Sardar Patel were completely against the philosophy of sectarianism and bigotry that is espoused by PM Modi’s ideological patriarch – the RSS & Hindu Mahasabha.”