Rahul Faces Tough Questions on ‘Women In Shorts’ Remarks

Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, (RSS) , has taken on the Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. Senior RSS leader Manmohan Vaidya said
Rahul Gandhi was asking the wrong questions and comparing apples with oranges.

“The problem is Mr Gandhi’s speech writers don’t understand the Sangh. He should get new, more intelligent writers for his speeches”, Vaidya said in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal where top leaders of the RSS are holding  a three-day meeting that started on Thursday.

Rahul Gandhi  on Tuesday had targeted the BJP and the RSS at one of his programmes during his Gujarat tour and had said that BJP wasn’t interested in women’s rights. “How many women are in the RSS? Have you ever seen women in shorts working with RSS? I have never seen. You see women in the Congress all the time. In the RSS you will never see women. God knows what mistakes women have committed that they cannot be a part of RSS,”  Gandhi had said.  On Rahul Gandhi’s attempt to compare the presence of women in the Congress to the RSS, Vaidya said the RSS could not be compared with any political party. “Trying to do that is like to trying to hold a competition between two sides, one playing cricket and the other side, hockey. If two sides have to compete, both have to be playing the same game, he said, directly Gandhi to compete with the BJP.” He added,  “I don’t know whether Rahul has asked the question because he was concerned for the Sangh or women,” he said, telling the Congress vice president not to worry about the RSS but expanding his party’s shrunk political base.