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"On 27 October 2013, Narendra Modi, who was BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate at that time, was scheduled to address a rally in Patna. Hardly five minutes had passed since he had started his speech when eight blasts jolted the city. One of the low-intensity bombs exploded at the venue of the rally itself. Six people died and over hundred were injured in the synchronised explosions. Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh said after the blasts, ‘What a coincidence blast at the Patna Railway on the day of Modi’s Rally! The challenge to Nitish Govt to find the culprit!’ Manmohan Singh was prompt in condemning the incident and asked Nitish Kumar to ensure a speedy inquiry. The IM was again found to be at its root. Only Digvijay Singh can tell what he meant by these statements. But his remarks have time and again played politics over the sensitive issue of terrorism. He has been the most vocal among all politicians to rake up the issue of saffron terrorism. He was even seen disseminating ‘secret’ information to journalists on many occasions. The 2014 election verdict proved that his remarks had no effect on the masses and had inadvertently helped the anti-India forces sitting across the border."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.