Summary:
Raipur, Oct 13 (PTI) Equating the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh with Naxals, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Wednesday said the way the outlaws active in his state were being dictated by their senior cadres sitting in other states, the local RSS workers were being controlled from Nagpur.
The RSS headquarters is located in Nagpur city of neighbouring Maharashtra.
Hitting back at Baghel, the BJP described his statement as "language of extremists", and said the Congress has deviated from the ideology of Mahatma Gandhi.
Talking to reporters at the helipad here, Baghel also slammed the Centre over its claim that there was no shortage of coal in the country, and added that it has failed to handle the issue.
"There will be an impartial investigation (into last week"s Kawardha violence)...In Chhattisgarh, no work of RSS people got done during 15 years (of the BJP rule from 2003 to 2018) and they continued to work as bonded labourers," Baghel said.
"Even now, they (RSS workers in the state) are not heard as everything is being controlled from Nagpur.