Referred to RSS in passing, praising it is unthinkable: SM Krishna

April 02, 2014 19:24

Veteran Congress leader S M Krishna does a quick U-turn on his statement in Bangalore today that the Congress learn from the RSS. "All that I said was a reference about people going to polling booths, in that context I took the name of the RSS, nothing beyond it. I referred to the RSS in passing, praising the RSS is unthinkable."

After maintaining a rather low profile since his exit from the UPA government last year, Krishna hit the campaign trail today.

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