West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury today expressed surprise over former president Pranab Mukherjee's decision to attend an RSS event and said he was unable to relate it with Mukherjee's previous comments against the saffron organisation.
While the state Congress chief of Mukherjee's home state of West Bengal and others in the state who worked under him were astonished, the veteran leader's MP son Abhijit Mukherjee declined to comment on the issue.
"My question is does he (Mukherjee) think his previous comments against RSS were wrong...We still remember how Pranab Mukherjee as a senior leader of the Congress had criticised RSS as a communal and a divisive organisation," Chowdhury said.
Mukherjee, who is a Congress veteran, was invited to be the chief guest at the valedictory function of Sangh
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