Congress livid as RSS leaders’ photos fixed in Mayor’s room

Rajinder Nagarkoti

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 29

Finally, city Mayor Arun Sood today got photographs of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders’ fixed in his room at the Municipal Corporation’s building in Sector 17.

The Mayor installed photos of two RSS leaders — Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, who was the founding sarsanghachalak of the RSS and Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, who was the second sarsanghchalak of the RSS, in the Mayor’s retiring room. Along with these two photographs, the Mayor has also installed the photograph of Mother India. The Congress is to oppose the Mayor’s move in the MC General House meeting tomorrow. The Mayor had personally brought these photographs from the Delhi BJP office last month. Whereas in the Mayor’s main office, photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Pranab Mukherjee, Father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi, and BR Ambedkar, architect of the Indian Constitution, have been put up. 

Former mayor and Congress councillor Subhash Chawla opposed the Mayor’s move and said installation of such photograaphs was against the rules. The Mayor’s office, including his retiring room, was a government office and no such photographs should be allowed to be installed there. And if the Mayor wanted to do so then he should have got them installed at the BJP office in Sector 33 or at his residence in Sector 37, he said. Chawla said with the installation of such photographs, the Mayor once again proved that that it was not the BJP but the RSS that was running the government in the country, including the city. Mayor Arun Sood said  he didn’t need Congress’s permission to install the photographs of his gurus and Bharat mata .