The tussle between the Opposition Congress and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over the former’s criticism of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) intensified on Tuesday, with BJP workers collecting and carrying hundreds of chaddis (shorts) to the official residence of Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah in a symbolic protest.
NSUI protest
The BJP is irked over the former Chief Minister’s recent remarks on RSS. Reacting to NSUI members burning a pair or Khaki shorts (worn by RSS cadre) outside Education Minister B.C. Nagesh’s house in Tumakuru, in protest against “saffronisation” of textbooks, he had questioned how it was a crime to burn a pair of shorts. He had threatened to launch a campaign of burning shorts if the arrested NSUI activists were not released.
