RSS has taken strong note of the saffron terror remarks

of Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and asked BJP to take up the issue inside and outside Parliament in a big way. However, there are concerns that the effort and the public response on it have both been lukewarm till date. There is also a view with BJP that the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has further blunted the campaign against Shinde. RSS is keen that the Sangh Parivar outfits act in tandem with BJP during the forthcoming Assembly elections in states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Delhi to improve the party's performance in the polls, sources said Infighting and differences between BJP leaders and RSS or those leaders enjoying closer proximity to RSS, have affected BJP in polls in the recent past, they said.