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I will never stop fighting the hateful & divisive agenda of the RSS. I stand by every single word I saidhttps://t.co/bUWzTHrgHW



— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) August 25, 2016

But he didn't

Rahul to express regret

Stand by what I said about RSS, says Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi attempted today to gain back some lost credibility by saying that he "will never stop fighting the hateful and divisive agenda of the RSS"."I stand by every single word I said," he further said.But he said all this on Twitter and not in the. There he said the complete opposite.So this Twitter attempt could well end up being a case of too little too late.Yesterday, the Congress vice president had a chance to stick to his guns in a defamation case hearing against him., in what many saw as a big 'fail' and a missed opportunity for him to show a semblance of stick-to-itiveness.Here's what happened: An RSS activist had filed a case against Rahul for saying in a Mumbai rally in 2014 that the RSS assassinated Gandhi.On July 19, the Supreme Court toldfor his comments or be ready to face a defamation trial. In the meanwhile, the RSS activist who filed the criminal defamation case had offered to withdraw the case against Rahul if he absolved the RSS of the assassination.And yesterday, Wednesday, Rahul did just that - he absolved the RSS in the Supreme Court."Rahul Gandhi never accused the RSS as (an) institution for the crime," the Congress vice president's counsel, Kapil Sibal, told the court.Quite the opposite of what he said in March 2014 in Thane. "RSS people killed Gandhiji and today their people (BJP) talk of him...They opposed Sardar Patel and Gandhiji," Rahul had said back then.So what does Rahul really think?