Bhagwat is also learnt to have said that the Mumbai terror attacks were “a humiliation of the country that must be avenged in the elections and that the feud in the Parivar must not be allowed to benefit the Congress that has heaped insults on the Hindus”.
The discernible shift in the RSS towards “compulsions of coalition politics”, say insiders, is to do a lot with the “pragmatic approach” of Bhagwat. While Devi is considered sympathetic to Advani, Soni is the chief backer of Rajnath in the Parivar.