Rahul vs RSS case: Kapil Sibal collecting evidence to link Godse with Sangh

by Shobha September 5, 2016 0 Comment

NEW DELHI: With Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi stating before the Supreme Court that he will go to trial for defaming the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), evidence is now being collected to firmly link Nathuram Godse with the Sangh. Gandhi’s lawyer Kapil Sibal plans to demand a cross examination of Rajesh Kunte- a Maharashtra RSS worker who filed the defamation case against Congress vice-president for his comments on the Sangh.In a public meeting in 2014, Rahul Gandhi had said people associated with RSS had killed Gandhiji. While Gandhi’s legal team has already quoted from a book by Gandhiji’s grandson Tushar Gandhi, there is more in the pipeline. Excerpts from books by Mark Juergensmeyer, Manohar Malgaonkar, Shamsul Islam, Koenraad Elst among others are likely to be quoted during the upcoming court proceedings to prove Godse’s firm association with the RSS.

MP and Rahul Gandhi’s lawyers Kapil Sibal told ET that he would seek to cross examine Kunte and senior RSS functionaries to ‘expose’ the organisation. “This is a great opportunity to expose the double speak of RSS. We don’t believe they represent mainstream India…in the course of the trial, we will expose them and their antediluvian beliefs. We will cross examine Kunte and ask him questions that are uncomfortable and inconvenient which he will not be able to answer. As the trial continues, the levels of discomfort will also increase.

We would hope that Mohan Bhagwat comes to the trial so that the real face of the RSS will be known to the people of India”, Kapil Sibal told. Sample the reading list from where Sibal and Co are culling material for the Rahul Gandhi Vs RSS Trial:-Mark Juergensmeyer’s book-The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State’- says this:-“Nehru wrote a letter to Home Minister, Sardar Patel on 26 February, 1948 suggesting that Gandhiji’s murder was ‘a part of a much wider campaign organized chiefly by the RSS’.

Manohar Malgaonkar’s book -The Men who killed Gandhi- reads—”Certainly Godse was a common link between the Mahasabha and the RSS, having been a member of both organizations, the denial of the RSS notwithstanding. None other than Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, in his letters to RSS Sarsanghachalak MS Golwalker, had pointed out that RSS men distributed sweets on hearing about the Mahatma’s assassination”.

Shamsul Islam’s book- RSS Primer—”Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were jointly responsible for the murder of Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi”.

Rahul vs RSS case: Kapil Sibal collecting evidence to link Godse with Sangh

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Rahul vs RSS case: Kapil Sibal collecting evidence to link Godse with Sangh

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