TIA NEWS/ PATNA
In a bid to make his presense at national level, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has appealed all non-BJP parties to join hand India free from RSS. he termed the slogan as a ‘Sangh-mukt Bharat’ (Sangh-free India) to save democracy.
“Sangh-mukt Bharat banane ke liye sabhi gair BJP parties ko ek hona hoga (to usher in a Sangh-free India, all non-BJP parties have to come together),” the JD(U) chief said at the ‘Advantage Conclave’ in Patna.
“Uniting against BJP and its divisive ideology is the only way to save democracy,” said Mr Kumar,
The BJP, the political arm of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or RSS, had launched itself into the 2014 Lok Sabha elections with a call for “Congress-mukt Bharat” or Congress-free India, an election war-cry it has used in every subsequent poll.
The Chief Minister said he was not against any party or individual, but against “divisive” ideology of the Sangh, the ideological parent of BJP.
After assuming as JD(U) president, Mr Kumar had, on April 11, said that he would strive for forging the “largest possible unity” against BJP by bringing Left and regional parties on one platform before the 2019 general elections.