Kailash Joshi rebuts Arjun Singh?s charges on partition

REBUTTING UNION Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh?s charge that Hindu Mahasabha and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were responsible for India?s partition senior BJP leader Kailash Joshi said it was Congress? greed for power that led to the partition.

REBUTTING UNION Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh’s charge that Hindu Mahasabha and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were responsible for India’s partition senior BJP leader Kailash Joshi said it was Congress’ greed for power that led to the partition.

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In a press statement issued here today, Joshi said Mahatma Gandhi had rejected the proposal of partition and had even said that India could only be divided over his dead body. But, Pandit Jawharlal Nehru was vulnerable due to his greed for power and easily fell prey to the partition conspiracy.

He further said the Jan Sangh was not in existence at the time of Independence and the RSS had always wanted an undivided India. Arjun Singh’s charge holding Hindutva forces responsible for partition of India was unfounded and malicious and betrayed his nervousness at growing influence of the BJP in national polity, he said.

Arjun Singh has lost his credibility among the masses and he has become irrelevant in his own party, he added.