In a tweet, the RSS said description of Bhagwat's as a u-turn was a "malicious and condemnable".
"Bhagwat's statement 'Till social discrimination exists reservation should continue' is consistent wth declared stand of RSS on resrvtion", remarked RSS head of communication department Manmohan Vaidya in a tweet.
"Calling it u-turn by section of media is baseless, biased, malicious and condemnable," he said in another tweet.