NEW DELHI: The RSS on Friday blamed “divisive political forces” for first trying to make former President Pranab Mukherjee “refrain” from attending its event and then for posting a morphed photograph showing him in a prayer position + identified with the organisation.
“Some divisive political forces have posted a morphed photo of former President Dr Pranab Mukherjee standing in a prayer position with a folded hand during recitation of Sangha ‘prarthana’ (prayer) at yesterday’s RSS function at Nagpur,” RSS joint general secretary Manmohan Vaidya said in a statement.
“These forces initially tried to create an opposition to make Mukherjee refrain from attending this function and now these frustrated forces are indulging in all such dirty tricks to defame the RSS. We denounce and strongly condemn the lowly act of these divisive political forces who are deliberately trying to defame the RSS,” he said.
The complete press statement issued by RSS
“Some divisive political forces have posted a morphed photo of former president of Bharat, Dr Pranab Mukherjee standing in a prayer position with a folded hand during recitation of Sangha Prarthana at yesterday’s RSS function at Nagpur.
These forces initially tried to create an opposition to make Dr Mukherjee refrain from attending this function and now these frustrated forces are indulging in all such dirty tricks to defame RSS.
We denounce and strongly condemn the lowly act of these divisive political forces who are deliberately trying to defame RSS.”
Prasanta Patnaik