Overview
- The former vice-president delivered his first public address since resigning in July at the Bhopal launch of RSS leader Manmohan Vaidya's book Hum Aur Yeh Vishwa.
- He praised the RSS as a stabilising force and said the book dismantles portrayals of the organisation as ultra-right or anti-minority.
- Warning against getting trapped in political 'narratives', he called it a 'chakravyuh' and quipped that his 'recent past' showed he would not neglect duty.
- He invoked Pranab Mukherjee’s 2018 visit to the RSS headquarters to rebut criticism of the organisation and described opposition to the CAA as misconceived.
- He offered no new explanation for his health-cited resignation, and no BJP or state leaders received him at the Bhopal airport, a lapse Congress figures publicly criticised.