Indore: Congress General Secretary, Digvijay
Singh on Monday hit out at new BJP President, Nitin Gadkari by
calling him a rubber stamp of the RSS.
"Gadkari is a rubber stamp of RSS and he was made BJP
president despite opposition from the entire party," Singh
told reporters.
He said that with Gadkari becoming BJP president, the
Sangh was now totally involved in politics, adding RSS Chief
Mohan Bhagwat should clarify if his organisation was social or
political in nature.
The Congress General Secretary described Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi`s decision to make voting compulsory in
local elections in his state as "impractical".
"In a democracy, voters cast their votes as per their
conscience and they must have full freedom in this regard,"
Singh said.
He described Modi`s character as "autocratic" and said
that BJP and the Sangh were less democratic and more
autocratic.
Singh also described as impractical the Madhya Pradesh
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan`s suggestion to hold
simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and state assemblies.
PTI
