Now,RSS supports smaller states

The RSS on Monday said that the comments of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Telangana and creation of smaller states,made at Allahabad on Sunday,had been misinterpreted and that “reorganising Andhra Pradesh state into two separate states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh was in line with the RSS thinking”. Interestingly,the RSS statement was distributed at the BJP’s national headquarters.

“The RSS has always held that creating a few more states for better development and convenience of administration,without affecting national unity and without creating bad blood between people,is always welcome,” said a statement released by RSS central executive member Ram Madhav.

This line of thinking is in consonance with the BJP thinking — something that had been enunciated by BJP Parliamentary Party chairman L K Advani,in an interview to The Indian Express on December 15. Advani had said that “his party,in principle,supported smaller states,but smaller states,when feasible,should be carved out only after a consensus is reached on the same”.