Highlights 1 Mayawati slams Parrikar for 'RSS teachings' remarks. Taking strong exception to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar giving credit for the decision for cross-LOC surgical strikes to his "RSS teachings", BSP chief Mayawati Tuesday alleged that it amounts to degrading the country's armed forces. PARRIKAR CREDITED RSSAddressing a programme in Ahmedabad yesterday, Parrikar had appeared to have given credit to RSS teachings for the decision to launch cross-LOC surgical strikes. "I wonder, with the combination of Prime Minister who comes from Mahatma Gandhi's home state, and I, Defence Minister, coming from Goa which never had any martial race, and surgical strikes. May be the RSS teaching was at the core, but this was quite a different kind of combination," Parrikar had said.

Source: India Today October 18, 2016 12:21 UTC