Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today said the RSS, which had always misguided the people, had swung the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections in favour of the BJP.        

"The Congress has its own way of fighting elections by organising public meetings and by spelling out its policies, but the RSS since its inception has misguided people," he told reporters in Srinagar.  

Azad, who chaired a meeting of the state Congress held here to analyse the reasons for party's poll debacle in Jammu and Kashmir, alleged the RSS had resorted to rumours during electioneering to propagate its agenda.       

"Ninety per cent of what they say are rumours, even if they speak five per cent truth that will be a big thing. This time they asked for votes in Modi's name and not in BJP's name," he said.       

"The RSS mobilises its cadres like a country at war mobilises its army," he said.