He said this after RSS ideologue MG Vaidya said that rather than twisting it, Rahul should come clean and show his generosity by offering an apology for his statement and accept before the court that what he had said was wrong.
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Elaborating further as to how RSS has been under attack of Congress party, Lalit said “wherever and whenever there is an election, RSS is maligned”.
Gandhi was reported as saying, “RSS people killed Gandhi ji”.
“The petitioner (Rahul Gandhi) never accused the RSS as an institution for the crime… it is clear from my affidavit before the (Bombay) High Court”, Rahul’s counsel Kapil Sibal told a bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Rohinton F Nariman.
The bench allowed his plea and declared the Special Leave Petition filed by Rahul as “dismissed as withdrawn”. It also refused to grant the Congress leader liberty not to personally appear before the magistrate and said he should move this plea before the trial court.
Mr Gandhi, who is No 2 in the Congress, has been accused of blaming the RSS in a pre-election speech in 2014 for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.
On a subsequent day, Rahul said he stands by his comments and will never stop fighting the “hateful and divisive agenda” of the RSS.
“The goal of law is not to turn citizens into litigants, history is the biggest enemy of privacy”, the court had said in its statement. said has given Rahul Gandhi time till July 27th to detail his arguments in the case. “Rahul never blamed the RSS but blamed a person associated with the RSS”, the court said it inferred from Rahul’s affidavit.
The case was by filed by RSS worker Rajesh Kunte against Gandhi in a Maharashtra court for allegedly blaming the RSS for Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination.
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Mr Kunte had alleged in his complaint that Mr Gandhi’s comments in his speech amounted to “imputations against the RSS and its people with malafide motive to harm the reputation of RSS, its followers, people, swayamsevaks”.
