Overview
- At a CWC meeting convened to plan a 5 January MGNREGA protest, Digvijay Singh said “quite a lot of sleeper cells” are active in Congress and urged an organizational overhaul.
- Earlier he shared an old photo of Narendra Modi on X to underscore RSS-BJP’s cadre pipeline, describing their organizational strength as the reason a grassroots worker can rise to the top.
- Party leaders split over his remarks: Pawan Khera and Supriya Shrinate rejected learning anything from the RSS, while Shashi Tharoor and T.S. Singh Deo backed the push to strengthen Congress’s machinery.
- Singh later clarified he opposes RSS-BJP ideology and was only commenting on capacity, as several leaders pressed to keep the CWC focused on the MGNREGA agenda.
- The BJP cast the episode as open dissent against Rahul Gandhi, and Congress MP Manickam Tagore compared the RSS to al-Qaeda while calling Singh’s post a self-goal.