Police seeking information on RSS objectionable: Giriraj Singh

PATNA: Union minister Giriraj Singh on Friday questioned the state government’s role in the Bihar Police Special Branch letter to its DSPs for gathering information on the state functionaries of the RSS and its 18 organizations.
“Sangh is my ‘mother organization’. Our deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi is himself a ‘swayamsewak’ of the sangh. The government should have inquired from Modi if it required any information about the sangh in state. After all, why there was a need of inquiry about the sangh?” Singh told a TV news channel.
Singh is the first Union minister and senior BJP leader to raise question over the controversial letter. “CM Nitish Kumar has reportedly rebuked the police officers who issued the letter. But on whose direction the police officer issued such a letter?” he asked.
“Whatever happened is very objectionable. In 1977, BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee had resigned from the then Union government after questions were raised on the issue of dual membership (of Janata Party and RSS). Therefore, there will no compromise on the issue of sangh,” Singh categorically said.
When contacted for comments on Singh’s remarks, JD(U) national secretary general K C Tyagi said PM Narendra Modi recently issued instructions only for such type of ‘Chhapaas’ (seeking space in print media) leaders in the BJP. “BJP leadership should take cognizance of Singh’s remarks. In JD(U), we don’t make any offensive remarks against senior BJP leaders,” Tyagi told TOI over phone.
He said ADG (special branch) J S Gangwar had already clarified that neither the CM nor state home department was aware of the said letter. All senior BJP leaders are convinced that the government had no role in it. “But, now when Gririraj has raised this issue again, I urge the BJP central leadership to take cognizance of his remarks,” Tyagi said.