On May 7, RSS sarkarya vahak (general secretary) Dattatreya Hosabale made a public statement condemning the postpoll violence in West Bengal and the role of the “passive state administration in the conspiracy”. The RSS top executive urged the central government to take all possible steps to ensure the state government “acts to stop the violence”. Now, this was quite a deviation from the Sangh’s public posture and rhetoric of being an ‘apolitical’ organization. In the past, the Sangh has made statements against political violence in Kerala, Punjab, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, etc., but that was after incidents involving the RSS cadre, not those associated with the BJP.
This latest reaction is seen as part of a larger Sanghparivar strategy to garner the sympathies of the Bengali bhadra lok as well as to keep morale up after the crushing defeat in the assembly polls. Before Hosabale’s statement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dialed state governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to take stock of the situation. BJP presi dent J.P. Nadda also did a twoday tour of the state, where he met many of the families hit by the violence.
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