Our Correspondent /New Delhi
Making a veiled attack on the RSS and other Sangh Parivar outfits Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said that many organisations
did not have any role in the Freedom struggle.
Speaking in the Lok Sabha during a debate to commemorate 75th anniversary of Quit India movement, she said remembering Quit India movement at this juncture also should make citizens responsible towards issues like secularism and tolerance.
Though she did not name any party or leader in her attack, Hindutva organisation RSS, the ideological mentor of the BJP, appeared to be Gandhi’s target.
“We must not forget that some organisations have no role in Freedom struggle,” Ms Gandhi said.
She also said a lot of atrocities were committed on the protesters, but no one stepped back.
She also said that during Freedom struggle, Pt Nehru spent several years in jail and many Congress men and women workers died in incarceration.
“We will not allow the idea of India to be a prisoner to narrow mindedness and communal ideology. Today it looks secularism and free speech are in danger. If we have to preserve freedom, we’ll have to defeat forces endangering it.
We can’t and we won’t allow sectarian forces to succeed,” she said.
People have to fight for the India they believe in, which is loved by one and all and which was envisioned by the freedom fighters, she said.
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