The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are likely to invite Congress president Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders for its three-day event next month.
RSS Akhil Bhartiya Prachar Pramukh Arun Kumar on Monday said that they would be holding a series of lectures from September 17-19 in Delhi.
This is for the first time the RSS is holding such an event where the Opposition parties are invited.
Former President Pranab Mukherjee had in June attended an event of the RSS, which had upset the Congress.
The lecture series has been organised in this context where the Sarsanghchalak will present the RSS view on various contemporary issues of national importance to prominent people of the society, Kumar said.
Kumar said even though the RSS has nothing to do with politics, many political parties try to connect political occurrences with the Sangh.
There was a need to bring awareness among top people in all fields of life, including other political parties, to convey the Sangh perspective on various issues, what it thinks, he said.
Though he did not specify whether Congress president Rahul Gandhi would be one of the invitees, let it be our prerogative he said, Kumar did say that that a person (read Rahal) who himself admits that he is still learning about Bharat is not expected to know much about the Sangh.
If he knew about the sufferings of people due to ISIS, he would not have made the comments, Kumar said in response to questions on his likening Sangh to the Muslim brotherhood in Arab World.
