Declare RSS as 'terror' outfit, says Azam Khan; BJP hits back

December 06, 2015 18:52

UP minister Azam Khan today stoked a fresh controversy by demanding that RSS be declared a "terrorist" organisation, accusing it of planning riots and having orchestrated them, drawing a sharp reaction from BJP.

"They have orchestrated many riots and many others have been planned. RSS should be declared a terrorist organisation," Khan said in Rampur, UP.

Hitting back at Khan, BJP secretary Shrikant Sharma said when Prime Ministers like Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi could not harm RSS, then people like him were of little worth.

"It's just an effort to create communal tension, appease a section of people and cover up the failures of the Uttar Pradesh government." he said.

He said Khan, Samajwadi Party and Congress suffered from "RSS-phobia" and their rants against it have made no difference to the "nationalist" organisation.

Khan had earlier sparked a row by accusing Jama Masjid's Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari of being hand-in-glove with Hindu outfits which were "silent" on his son's marriage to a Hindu though they were vociferously raising the issue of "love jihad".

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