Kodiyeri Balakrishnan gets open invite to join RSS

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP spokesperson B Gopalakrishnan has invited CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan to RSS. The open invite comes as part of the tit-for-tat statements made by leaders to establish who stands closer to RSS and who keeps a clear distance from the Sangh.
“Kodiyeri Balakrishnan was most welcome to join RSS. It would help him do penance for all the anti-national activities, allegedly done by him so far,” Gopalakrishnan said. It would also help him clear doubts whether to turn to India or China, he added.
Accusing one another for being closer or in the good books of RSS is one of the common political slurs used against one another by leaders of communist, Marxist party and Congress in the state. In the latest such live episode, Balakrishnan termed opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala as the new darling of RSS, only to invite the trite counter allegation from the Congress camp that it was chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan who had struck a quid pro quo deal with RSS when he fought an election in the 1970s. As usual, second line leaders in both the parties have picked a fight, probing the political lineage of leaders in both parties.
Referring to reports that CPM politburo member S R Ramachandran Pillai was an RSS worker during his school days, Gopalakrishnan said an opportunity was awaiting Kodiyeri to live a value-based life like that of Pillai by joining RSS. “Since SRP has proudly said that he had been an RSS man in the past, it would inspire other members in AKG Centre. RSS point of view is, it’s an ensemble of those who are presently with it and others who are to be with it in future,” Gopalakrishnan said.
On Saturday, BJP state president K Surendran had said that RSS was not looking for someone from Congress to assume charge of RSS sarsangh chalak. Gopalakrishnan had hit the headlines in the past for his comment that had Gandhiji been alive in the present world, he would have joined RSS.