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“RSS Does Not Discriminate On The Basis Of Religion,” Says Nitin Gadkari To Ratan Tata

Pune: On Thursday, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said he once told industrialist Ratan Tata that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh does not discriminates on the basis of religion. The senior BJP leader inaugurated charitable hospital in the Sinhagad area in Pune. He said so while addressing at the ceremony. 

Speaking on the occasion, he recalled the time when he was the Minister in the Shiv Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra.

Gadkari said, “A hospital named for late RSS chief KB Hedgewar was being inaugurated in Aurangabad. I was a minister in the state government then. A senior RSS functionary expressed wish that the hospital be inaugurated by Ratan Tata, and asked me to help.”

After this appeal from a senior RSS functionary, Gadkari said he contacted Ratan Tata and asked him to him to inaugurate the hospital citing Tata Cancer Hospital’s contribution in providing cancer care to the poor in the country.

“Upon reaching the hospital, Tata asked if the hospital is only for people from the Hindu community. I asked him ‘why do you think so’. He immediately replied, ‘because it belongs to the RSS’.

“I told him that the hospital is for all communities, and no such thing (discrimination on the basis of religion) happens in the RSS,” the Union minister said.

He then explained several things to Tata and the latter “became very happy”, Gadkari added.

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Musk said that it is very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech. Elon Musk added, “It’s just really important that people have both the reality and the perception that they are able to speak freely within the bounds of law.”

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