Pranab criticises Advani's remarks

CALCUTTA, OCT 19. The Congress Working Committee member, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, today criticised Home Minister, Mr. L.K. Advani, for comparing the RSS with Mahatma Gandhi and described it as ``highly objectionable.''

``It is the height of indignity to compare Gandhi with the RSS'', he said.

The State Congress chief, who led a day-long satyagraha here in protest against various policies of the Vajpayee Government and ``terror unleashed by the CPI-M'', told a press conference that it was ``very unfortunate'' that a seasoned politician like Mr. Advani had made such a comparison.

There could also not be any comparison between Jawaharlal Nehru and Mr. A.B. Vajpayee, he said.

Mr. Mukherjee said it was objectionable that the Minister attended the RSS convention and gave a `certificate' to the organisation after the statement of the `RSS sarsanghchalak, Mr. K.S. Sudarshan calling for Indianisation of Christians and asking Muslims to accept their Indian heritage.

On disinvestment of PSUs, the Congress leader criticised the NDA Government for resorting to ``indiscriminate disinvestment'' and said they did not seek the people's mandate for privatising profit-making PSUs and banks. ``In fact, the Government is squandering away the people's money'', he said.

- PTI

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