Concluding his four-day campaign in poll-bound Karnataka, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused the RSS of trying to "capture" every institution and alleged that Modi government's demonetization decision was also conceived by one of its functionaries and not by the RBI or the government.
As his Janarshirvad Yatra drew to a close, Gandhi also asserted that there was a "good atmosphere" for his party in the state. He went on to criticise RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for his reported remark that the Sangh outfit could 'prepare' military personnel faster than the Army.
"It is sad that Mohan Bhagwat has made these comments, our soldiers shed their blood for their country. He has insulted their families, he has to apologise," Gandhi said.
Gandhi went on to allege that NDA ministers were not operating independently, as the Sangh Parivar outfit's men were planted in each ministry. "In every single ministry in India at the national level, there is an OSD from RSS working with the minister...the minister is not operating on his own," he said, interacting with professionals and the business community.
"The approach is of capture, the approach is — here is an institution and let us capture it; as opposed to allowing an institution to serve the people of India and allowing the people of India to capture the institution.
"Do you know where the idea of note bandi (note ban) came from? Do you know who gave the idea of note-bandi to the Prime Minister of India? It was not RBI, it was not Arun Jaitley (Finance Minister), it was not an officer in the Finance Ministry. t was a particular ideologue of the RSS. Now, you imagine the RSS places an idea into the Prime Minister's mind and the Prime Minister launches that idea,"Gandhi said.
Hitting out at the Union government on employment generation, Gandhi claimed that while China was creating 50,000 jobs in 24 hours, the NDA government was generating 450 jobs in 24 hours.
Gandhi, who has been highly critical of the manner in which the tax was implemented and had termed it Gabbar Singh Tax, said that if his party is voted to power at the Centre, it would reform the current GST and simplify it by trying to make it a single-slab tax and cap it at a "decent" level.
‘RSS to blame’
Rahul alleged that it was a particular ideologue of the Sangh Parivar outfit who had given the idea of the note ban to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, thereby hurting the common man.
