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 on smaller states?something that had been enunciated by BJP Parliamentary Party chairman LK Advani 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?.
Madhav?s statement said the RSS chief (in his statement at Allahabad) ?had only commented on the flip-flops of the Central government on Telangana that had led to unnecessary tensions and violence in Andhra Pradesh in the last couple of weeks?.