Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said the Sangh had never opposed reservation given to certain groups, and maintained that the video making the rounds on social media, in which he is seen speaking against quotas in a meeting, is fake.
Mr. Bhagwat’s denial came amid a war of words between the BJP and the Congress in the ongoing General Election campaigning as Opposition parties are claiming that the BJP, if it returned to power for the third time, would rewrite the Constitution and do away with the reservation policy.
“A video is being circulated on social media platforms claiming that the [Rashtriya Swayamsevak] Sangh is against reservation.... and that we can’t say this in open. I am visible taking a meeting in the video.... I say that the video is fake and that I have never said this,” Mr. Bhagwat said while speaking at the opening of a Vidya Bharati Vignana Kendra school in Hyderabad.
