Is RSS hurting BJP's chances of winning Lok Sabha polls? Cong's Khera recalls Nadda's remarks

Congress leader Pawan Khera on Monday accused JP Nadda of conspiring against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in response to the BJP president's remarks that the saffron party doesn't need its ideologue parent RSS to win elections anymore.

Khera, while addressing a press briefing in the national capital Delhi on Monday, said that his statements reflect that the RSS was taking revenge on the BJP as is being reflected in low voter turnouts.

"The day before yesterday, Nadda said that BJP doesn't need RSS (to win election). Either he said this with overconfidence. Though Nadda is a soft-spoken man, I don't think he was overconfident, compared to those two brothers from Gujarat (Modi and Shah). If he didn't make this statement in jest, then there is a conspiracy. Nadda seems to be conspiring against these two Gujarati brothers by saying that they are bigger than RSS."

"It means that RSS might be taking revenge against these two, as voters not coming out as per their expectations. Nevertheless, it will be decided in this election whether RSS is bigger or not," he added.

Khera was referring to Nadda's comments to a newspaper, in which said that BJP needed the RSS when it was a small party and less capable, but now the saffron party has grown, become more capable, and "runs itself".