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RSS keeps its word : Sues Arjun Singh
Acting on its threat, the RSS has filed a defamation suit against HRD Minister Arjun Singh for suggesting the organisation’s involvement in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
The case also lists as respondents N. Ram, editor-in-chief and publisher of The Hindu, M/S Kasturi and Sons, publishers of the paper and Balachandran, its printer.
Hours after the RSS filed the suit, HRD Minister Arjun Singh said he would not apologise or backtrack from his statement. “There is no question of any apology from my side or going back. What is there in my written statement? I stand by it,” he told reporters. On the defamation suit, he said:
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