Calling the RSS a blatant hypocrite, which rejected Mahatma Gandhi during his lifetime, and which today has brazenly proclaimed itself to be his champion, the Congress said on Tuesday that the RSS's ideology was responsible for spreading an atmosphere of hate that led to the Mahatma's tragic assassination. The party's Central Working Committee met in Sevagram from where the party had initiated a new chapter, 'Quit India,' under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. The CWC asked the people to join its mission of throwing the RSS's offspring, the BJP, out of power."

'Fight the politics of fear'
"We call upon all countrymen and women, particularly the young, to determinedly fight the politics of fear, intimidation, lies and deception – 'To never bend, to never stop; till we achieve our goal," the CWC said in the resolution passed in the presence of party president Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, former PM Manmohan Singh and other senior leaders.