Kolkataa: Amidst the fanfare over RSS’ plans to celebrate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary in the city on January 23, his daughter Anita
Kolkataa: Amidst the fanfare over RSS’ plans to celebrate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary in the city on January 23, his daughter Anita Bose-Pfaff has said that it is being done to “partially exploit” her father’s legacy.
RSS’s ideology and the nationalist leader’s ideas of secularism and inclusiveness are “poles apart and do not coincide”, she said.
As far as ideology is concerned, the Congress has a lot more in common with Netaji than any other party in the country, Bose-Pfaff said.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will address a public programme at Shahid Minar ground in the city to commemorate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary.
Bose-Pfaff said the BJP and RSS do not reflect the idea of respecting all religions as preached by Netaji, who was a devout Hindu but believed in respecting other faiths. He was in favour of productive cooperation between members of different religions, she said.
“RSS and BJP do not necessarily reflect this attitude … If you want to put a simple label, they are rightists, and Netaji was a leftist,” she told PTI over the phone from Germany where she lives.
“From what I hear about the RSS ideology, I would agree that it and Netaji’s ideology are poles apart.
