"There can be matbhed, but no manbhed": Mohan Bhagwat on question regarding differences between RSS, BJP

While addressing the gathering during a three-day lecture series to celebrate the centenary year of the RSS, Bhagwat said that the Sangh had good coordination with every government, not only the current one.

"There are opinions, but we discuss and form a consensus to decide whether it is against one's opinion or in favour of it. I will follow the collective decision. When that nature is there, quarrel doesn't exist. There can be matbhed (difference of opinion) here, but no manbhed (heart-to-heart disagreement). We need to move forward in one direction, and not different ones," Bhagwat said.

"We have good coordination with every government, be it state or central. Not only this one. But there are systems that have some internal contradictions. The system (of governance) in general is the same, which was invented by the British so that they could rule. We need some innovation... even if the man in the chair is 100 per cent behind us, he has to do it, and he knows what the hurdles are. He may be able to do it, he may not. But we have to give him independence. There is no quarrel anywhere," he added.

The RSS chief stated that the Swayamsevaks are never at loggerheads with each other, even though some struggle was involved in the pursuit of the "truth". He said that the goal was to do good for the country and its people, which allows the Sangh to maintain coordination.

"Our Swayamsevaks work honestly. They don't believe in 'isms'. They are never at loggerheads. They are trying to extract the truth, which involves some struggle. All these things (the hurdles to reach a goal) create an appearance that there is a quarrel. There might be a struggle, but there is no quarrel since the goal is the same, which is to do good for our country and people. If this understanding remains, there is always coordination. Our Swayamsevaks have this understanding," Bhagwat said. (ANI)