{"id":301805,"date":"2018-08-24T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301805"},"modified":"2019-06-19T07:14:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T07:14:40","slug":"rahul-gandhi-compares-rss-to-muslim-brotherhood-bjp-demands-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-compares-rss-to-muslim-brotherhood-bjp-demands-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi compares RSS to Muslim brotherhood, BJP demands apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301806 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IISS-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/IISS-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/IISS-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/IISS-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/IISS-611x420.jpg 611w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/IISS.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/>Congress President Rahul Gandhi during an interaction at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London (IISS) on Friday compared Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to Egypt\u2019s Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the gathering, Rahul Gandhi said, \u201cRSS is trying to change the nature of India. Other parties haven&#8217;t tried to capture India&#8217;s institutions. RSS&#8217;s idea is similar to the idea of Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Attributing the idea of demonetization to RSS, Rahul said, &#8220;The idea of demonetization came directly from RSS, bypassed the Finance Minister &amp; RBI, and was planted in Prime Minister&#8217;s head.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hitting back on Rahul Gandhi, BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra said, \u201cRahul Gandhi must apologize as he has compared RSS with Muslim Brotherhood. Is Rahul Gandhi a contract killer of the idea called India?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further adding Sambit said, \u201cYou have said that the ideology of the government is that of the Muslim Brotherhood? You&#8217;re a parliamentarian and the president of a Congress party.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRahul Gandhi must clarify why he has such hatred against democracy and PM Shri Narendra Modi,\u201d Sambit Patra Said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi\u00a0is presently in the United Kingdom (UK) after making a two days visit to Germany. In UK he will be taking part in several interactions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress President Rahul Gandhi during an interaction at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London (IISS) on Friday compared Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to Egypt\u2019s Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood.\u00a0 Addressing the gathering, Rahul Gandhi said, \u201cRSS is trying to change the nature of India. Other parties haven&#8217;t tried to capture India&#8217;s institutions. RSS&#8217;s idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":301806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,236,1544,4384,4383,3410,4382,316,579,2450,1681,1783,2190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301807,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301805\/revisions\/301807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}