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RSS does not want women to be part of power structure, says Rahul Gandhi in Kochi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said the fundamental difference between the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Congress is that the former never allows women to share power while his party fundamentally believes that they should be part of the nation’s power structure.

“In its entire history, the RSS has not allowed women in its ranks. When I said this, the leadership of the RSS said they have women’s organisations. But the question is not whether they have such organisations, the question is whether women are allowed to share power in the RSS,” he said in his inaugural speech at Utsah, a State-level convention organised by the Kerala unit of the Mahila Congress, at the Marine Drive ground in Kochi on Friday.

“I have heard right-wing leaders saying that girls would not have been raped if they had dressed properly. This is an insult to every single woman in the country. It is turning the victim into the villain. This is the difference between us and the RSS,” he said.

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