Subhash Velingkar who was sacked as RSS Goa unit chief, today said he and his supporters would function independently of the parent body at least till the assembly polls as he blamed Union ministers Manohar Parrikar and Nitin Gandkari for his removal from the Sangh.
"Last night, several RSS workers have resigned from their posts. We have now split from Konkan prant forming a separate RSS Goa prant," Velingkar told reporters here.
He, however, hastened to add, "We will approach the parent body seeking affiliation after the assembly polls in March 2017."
Velingkar, who was removed from the key post by the RSS yesterday, said the workers have "reinstated" him as the Goa "Prant Sangh Chalak."
He was "relieved" from his charge of the state by RSS in the wake of his forum Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM) persistently challenging the BJP and its government in the state as part of its campaign for making the local language Medium of Instruction (MoI) in the schools.
They had even shown black flags to the BJP national chief Amit Shah during a recent visit to the state.
BBMS has been pressing for regional languages like Konkani and Marathi to be made the MoI in schools and grants given to the English-medium institutes stopped.
Sangh said Velingkar was sacked because he was indulging in political activities, which as an RSS member he could not do.
Countering the charge of meddling in politics, he sought to know as to why the Sangh did not object to his involvement in the political movement during 2012 Goa Assembly election, in which he gave the slogan of "Congress-hatao".
"When they did not object to my role in Congress-hatao, why are they questioning now when I speak against BJP?," he said.
RSS Konkan prant Sanghachalak Satish Modh had in a statement said Velingkar has been relieved of the charge as he wanted to get involved in political activity.
Earlier, speaking to PTI, Velingkar alleged Parrikar and Gadkari were instrumental in Snagh taking action against him.
"I was not shocked. I was anticipating it (the action) (Manohar) Parrikar and Nitin Gadkari are powerful at the Centre. They have (been) strongly lobbying there. They must have tried for it. They must have wrongly fed the RSS high command," Velingkar told PTI.
"There is a possibility of Gadkari and Parrikar misreporting to the RSS headquarters on the issue. Parrikar is very much behind this. For them, I was the only focal point and they tried to break the (MoI) movement. Later they will repent for doing it," said Velingkar.
Resenting action against Velingkar, over 300 Sangh workers have announced they will quit the organisation and "defeat" BJP in the Assembly polls if he is not reinstated.
A large number of RSS workers from the state last night held an 'emergency' meeting for over three hours at Bambolim near here in the backdrop of Velingkar's removal.
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