"On March 3, the Sangh Parivaar held its annual coordination meeting at our state headquarters. Core BJP leaders, including Yeddyurappa, Ananth Kumar, Sadananada Gowda and others participated and sought the Sangh's help for the state elections," a senior RSS leader told PTI here.
The Sangh, however, said it would not directly involve itself in giving electoral help to BJP, but have given freedom for its Swayamsevaks (volunteers) to do so, he said.
Asked whether the RSS has asked BJP to break votes of OBC and Dalits who may opt for Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, he said, "We neither suggested anything like that nor has the BJP asked anything on these lines."
On what sort of electoral help Swayamsevaks would give to BJP, the RSS leader said they would try to inspire a large number of people to exercise their voting rights to elect the right candidates.
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Apart from this, the Swayamsevaks are free to assist BJP in office matters too, he said.
Replying to a query, he said it was difficult to give the numbers of participating Swayamsevaks, "but thousands of them will be helping BJP."
To another query, the RSS leader said the BJP workers,who also are Swayamsevaks, have already started their work in this regard.
In a recently-held meeting, BJP President Amit Shah had reportedly assured top RSS leaders at its headquarters in Nagpur that the party would certainly win Karnataka elections.
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