Lalu gives Rabri credit for RSS dropping its shorts

March 14, 2016 15:48

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav said that a comment made by his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi is the reason the RSS was forced to change its decades-old dress code from khaki shorts to brown trousers.

"Rabri Devi ke ek tarkpurn akarmak bayan ne matra do mahine mein RSS ko half pant se full pant karne par majboor kar diya," Lalu said in his latest tweet.

Lalu said Rabri Devi had questioned the RSS's dress code of shorts nearly two months ago and it embarrassed them so much that they have decided to replace it with trousers. In January this year, during a RJD function in Patna, Rabri Devi said, "Aren't the RSS elders ashamed to wear half pants in public?" Her statement was then criticized by several top leader of the BJP including union ministers.

-- MI Khan/Patna

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