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Asked about Laxman's background, RSS spokesman M G Vaidya said, "We teach many students in our school (ideology), it is not necessary that everyone passes, some also fail."
When asked specifically whether Laxman had 'failed' as a 'swayam sewak', he said, "Yes. He himself has accepted taking money and resigned."
"It is the failure of the individual and not the system," Vaidya said.
Asked whether Laxman should be punished, the RSS leader said, "All those who are involved should be punished irrespective of who they are."
However, Vaidya sought to defend the prime minister on the attacks against his Principal Secretary Brajesh Mishra and son-in-law Ranjan Bhattacharya.
"Leave alone son-in-law, how can one be held responsible for (actions) of one's own son?" he asked.
On the Opposition demand that the Vajpayee government should resign, Vaidya said, "Even in the 1962 fiasco (Sino-Indian conflict) only the defence minister (V K Krishna Menon) had resigned."
He reiterated that RSS had no links whatsoever with R K Gupta, identified as a defence middleman and 'national trustee' of the RSS in the web site expose.
PTI
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