Rss Hand Behind Bjp's Support To Telangana Bill

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As Parliament midwifed the new state of Telangana finally on Thursday, the Congress may have reasons to thank its old bugbear, RSS, more than its own fractious MPs, for the legislative success.

The unusual sight of the Congress and the BJP voting on the same side of an issue, insiders told ET, was a result of the RSS bearing down on the BJP "to keep to the right side of our ideology".

"There was a clear distaste on the part of some senior leaders including L K Advani on clearing the bill in such din and without the presence of the 16 MPs from Seemandhra who were important stake holders in the division," said a senior source in the RSS.

"However it has been our longstanding ideological position that smaller states are good, and that this Bill cannot be allowed to hang fire for the next government to deal with," he added.

"Our support for Telangana has been more than three decades in the making," the RSS insider said. The instructions were passed