"They have orchestrated many riots and many others have been planned. RSS should be declared a terrorist organisation," Khan said here.
Hitting back at Khan, BJP secretary Shrikant Sharma said when Prime Ministers like Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi could not harm RSS, then people like him were of little worth.
"It's just an effort to create communal tension, appease a section of people and cover up the failures of the Uttar Pradesh government." he said.
RSS works to integrate country and attach people to their culture, Sharma claimed, adding that Khan and his party represented "fissiparous" forces which believed in the politics of appeasement.
On the Ram Mandir issue, Khan said, "We want to assure BJP and RSS that if Babri Masjid is built at the same place (in Ayodhya) all the Muslims of India will leave no stone unturned for the BJP to come back to power".
BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj ruled out construction of a masjid at the disputed site.
Khan had earlier sparked a row by accusing Jama Masjid's Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari of being hand-in-glove with Hindu outfits which were "silent" on his son's marriage to a Hindu though they were vociferously raising the issue of "love jihad".
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Sharma also rejected Khan's contention on the Babri
mosque, saying a temple existed on the disputed site and continues to exist and the only question now was about building a grand temple there.
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