RSS denies conducting survey on Munugodu bypoll

Hyderabad: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has denied doing any survey in the Munugodu Assembly constituency and condemned the report stating that it was mischievous act of publicising fake document and wanted the authorities to take action against the responsible.

In a press release issued here, the RSS Telangana Pranth Karyavaha Kacham Ramesh said that a forged statement, entitled 'RSS Internal Survey Report', was being circulated in social media. "Released ostensibly in the context of the Munugodu bypolls on Nov 3, this report is signed by an unknown person and is clearly released with the malafide intention of confusing and misleading people. We would like to state that no such survey has been conducted by the RSS and we condemn the mischievous act of publicising this fake document," said Ramesh.

The RSS leader said that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was a voluntary organisation that has been working for the last 97 years with the primary aim of nation building through individual character building. RSS as an institution participates neither in politics nor does it conduct political surveys. As elections are a crucial and critical part of democracy, RSS encourages every Indian citizen to exercise their franchise. Of late, attempts have been made to denigrate a cultural voluntary organisation such as the RSS, by people who have been resorting to fake, baseless and implausible news stories and comments for political gains.

These kinds of actions do not befit the position of any individual or institution of responsibility. It is nothing but deriding and abusing democratic and social values, said Ramesh demanding the government to identify the persons responsible for such fake documents and the news emanating out of it and take stringent, legal measures against them.