Mother Teresa remark: Opposition lashes out at Mohan Bhagwat

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the RSS should spare Mother Teresa.

"I worked wid [with] Mother Teresa for a few months at Nirmal Hriday ashram in Kolkata. She was a noble soul. Pl [please] spare her," tweeted Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday morning.

Trinamool Congress Party MP Derek O'Brien said, "I wonder now what will the one who wears pinstripe say to the one who wears khakis? The statement made by RSS chief is totally condemnable."

Even CPI backed the TMC with its party leader Atul Anjan saying: "Such statements hurt India's image in the world. What bravery is Bhagwat showing by making such statements?"

This comes after Mohan Bhagwat on Monday said: "Mother Teresa served people lot. Her service had been good. But her main objective was to convert the person, who was being served, into a Christian."

Bhagwat said this while speaking at a function organised by NGO Apna Ghar.

According to him, conversion is not bad but if it's done in the name of serving people then the good work gets devalued.

He was backed by his party though even as criticisms poured in.

"At Bharatpur Ex DG BSF said that Mother Teresa did Seva with motive of conversion In reply Bhagavatji said let Mother Teresa know her motive for Seva, we do Seva without expecting any returns," RSS spokesperson and former Sangh chief MG Vaidhya said is a tweet.

In a reaction the Bhagwat's comment, Sunita Kumar of Missionaries of Charity told CNN-IBN: "Sadly, Mr Bhagwat is misinformed. Mother believed in all faith, there was never any attempt to convert, the tradition continues even today. We are not worried with about the RSS chief's comment, we have nothing to hide, we live in peace."