Addressing the extended CWC meet in New Delhi on July 22, Congress president Rahul Gandhi alleged that BJP governments were stealing money and funding thousands of RSS-affiliated institutions. Photo: Twitter/@INCIndia

Congress president Rahul Gandhi may have just escaped facing another defamation case by the RSS, the ruling BJP's ideological parent. The speech which he made at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting yesterday (July 22) may have been blasphemous for the BJP and the RSS.

This may have been the reason why the Congress deleted the link to Rahul Gandhi's half-an-hour-odd speech within minutes of having uploaded it on Twitter and YouTube last evening.

In his speech, Rahul Gandhi was heard criticising the RSS and the BJP but simultaneously asking the Congress leaders to learn from them.

Rahul Gandhi said whenever the BJP came to power, thousands of institutions affiliated to the RSS mushroomed in the states.

What Rahul went on to state was sure to provoke the BJP and RSS to drag him to court in a defamation case. "The BJP governments steal money from the state coffers and pass it on to thousands of RSS-affiliated institutions," he said.

Rahul Gandhi named BJP-ruled states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and alleged that government money was being stealthily donated to the RSS's institutions such as the Shishu Mandir schools.

Thousands of such RSS institutions run on government money stolen by the BJP governments, he reiterated.

Rahul Gandhi told the Congress leaders to learn from the modus operandi of the help extended by the BJP and the RSS to their cadres. He said the right-wing cadres had infiltrated government institutions.

Rahul Gandhi said, "We also will have to do that. Congress workers ask me whether our party will help them if we come to power [at the Centre and in the states]?"

Rahul Gandhi asked his partymen to learn from the BJP and the RSS how to bring different sections of the society into their fold.

"Earlier, when anyone asked the tribal people who did they vote for, their answer was the Congress," he said.

Rahul Gandhi said the situation has changed now. The same tribal people vote for the BJP now.

"Because the BJP and the RSS went and worked in the tribal areas and brainwashed them. We will also have to work among them and win them back," he said.

However, the Congress immediately deleted the tweet which had the link to Rahul Gandhi's speech at the CWC meet which he had presided as president for the first time.

Perhaps, the party did not want to stir up another controversy and save Rahul Gandhi from facing another defamation suit.

Rahul is already facing a defamation suit filed by an RSS functionary in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra. In an election rally on March 6, 2014, he had alleged that RSS people killed Mahatma Gandhi.

Rajesh Kunte, secretary of the Bhiwandi unit of RSS, registered a case against Rahul under Section 500 (defamation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Moreover, Rahul Gandhi will face a privilege notice to be moved by the BJP for his speech in the no-confidence motion debate held on July 20 in the Lok Sabha.

Rahul Gandhi had levelled personal allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over the Rafale aircraft deal with France during the debate on the motion.

He had alleged that Nirmala Sitharam was lying to the nation about the price of the aircraft under the PM's pressure.

Perhaps the Congress did want Rahul Gandhi to get into another controversy and, hence, deleted the link to the video.