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Glasnost phase is RSS' new stunt
WSN Network

New Delhi : For a long time, the RSS functioned as a secretive society, and rarely bothered to clarify many widely held allegations. Now, increasingly under attack by wide sections of the liberal media, the saffron parent body has grown wiser and plans to use the media to counter propaganda against it. It has asked top leaders to double up as spokespersons. Thus,  Madan Das Devi, Shrikant Joshi, Madhubhai Kulkarni, Manmohan Vaidya, Bajrang Lal Gupta, besides Ram Madhav, were asked to establish a dialogue with the media.

But the new phase is hardly any sign of a glasnost and is instead a new stunt of Mohan Bhagwat, who took over as the new sarsanghchalak (organisational head) in May this year. The RSS may want this to be seen as a case of evolving with the changing times but the truth is that the hate spewing outfit wants merely to dodge the criticism through some clever spinmastering rather than shed its spots.

12 August 2009
 

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