A day after he alleged there was an RSS agenda behind the Narendra Modi government's plan to modify rules for the UPSC examination, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi tweeted on Wednesday that the deaths of 11 people protesting expansion of the Sterlite plant in Thoothukudi in police firing were because they refused to toe the saffron outfit's “line.”
Rahul's tweet in Tamil also declares “Bullets of RSS and Modi can never crush Tamil people's sentiments” and assured protesters of the Congress's support.
Rahul had tweeted his condemnation of the Thoothukudi violence on Tuesday night. He criticised the firing on protesters as state-sponsored terrorism and said, “These citizens were murdered for protesting against injustice.”
On Tuesday, BJP chief Amit Shah ridiculed Rahul pointing fingers at the RSS on the UPSC issue, adding the Congress chief saw the RSS in “everything.”
Rahul has adopted an overtly hostile line against the RSS, the ideological fount of the BJP. On Wednesday, Rahul also tweeted about the recent killing of a dalit man in Gujarat, calling it an example of casteist ideology and said the ideology of the BJP and RSS should be defeated.
In 2014, the RSS sued Rahul for alleging its members had assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. In April this year, Rahul supported protests by dalit groups against the perceived dilution of provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Rahul then tweeted it was in the DNA of the BJP and RSS to keep dalits at the lowest rungs of the social ladder.
(With PTI inputs)