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NEW DELHI: Making it clear that Malegaon blast accused Colonel Srikant Purohit has no links with it, RSS has asked the Prime Minister to set up an independent commission to probe an alleged plot to assassinate its chief Mohan Bhagwat by the former military intelligence officer and efforts to "malign" the image of the Sangh.

In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sangh Sarkaryavah (general secretary) Suresh Joshi ’Bhayyaji’ said the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad has evidence to prove that Malegaon blast accused Col Purohit and Swami Dayanand Pandey were simultaneously plotting to eliminate Bhagwat and senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar.

"At the time of Malegaon investigations itself a senior ATS official had informed one of our prominent leaders about this conspiracy...yet, shockingly, some elements in the investigative agencies have been trying to club the RSS with those very same people who were plotting against it," the letter dated February 9 said.

Copies of the letter addressed to Singh were made available to the media at a press conference here by RSS.

The four-page letter delivered to the PMO yesterday stated that the fundamental question which needed to addressed was, "How could RSS be bracketed with those who were viciously hostile to it and conspiring to kill its leaders?"

"We will help any probe to get to the truth...an independent commission should be set up as we see a political hand behind them (Purohit and Pandey) to malign the image of RSS.

"The way a Congress general secretary (apparently referring to Digvijay Singh) is speaking against RSS, the truth needs to be ascertained," said Sangh leader Manmohan Vaidya, replying to a question on the kind of probe RSS was demanding at a time when the case was already being looked into by various agencies.

Vaidya claimed that Purohit was never part of the RSS though he "tried to get close to RSS and tried to create feud within the organisation...he dubbed Indresh Kumar as an ISI agent."

RSS hoped to get a reply from the Prime Minister in the coming days even as ’Bhaiyyaji’ has sought a meeting with Singh to discuss the issue in person.