Told Ratan Tata Once That RSS Does Not Discriminate On Basis of Religion: Nitin Gadkari

New Delhi: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari narrated an interesting anecdote on Thursday and said he once told industrialist Ratan Tata that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) does not discriminate on the basis of religion.

Senior BJP leader narrated this anecdote while inaugurating a charitable hospital in Sinhagad area of ​​Pune.

Gadkari was a minister in the Shiv Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra when Ratan Tata asked him the same.

"A hospital in the name of late RSS chief KB Hedgewar was being inaugurated in Aurangabad. I was then a minister in the state government. A senior RSS functionary expressed his desire that the hospital be inaugurated by Ratan Tata and asked me to help with this," Gadkari said.

He then went to Ratan Tata and persuaded him to inaugurate the hospital, citing Tata Cancer Hospital's contribution in providing cancer care to the poor in the country.

On reaching the hospital, Ratan Tata asked Gadkari that this hospital was only for people from the Hindu community, to which the Union Minister asked him that why he think so. Replying to Gadkari, Ratan Tata replied, ''Because it belongs to the RSS''.

"I told him that the hospital is for all communities and there is no discrimination on the basis of religion in the RSS," Gadkari added.

After, Gadkari explained numerous other things to Ratan Tata following which he was very happy.

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