BJP, Opposition raging on Rajnath’s remarks on Savarkar and Bapu India News – Times of India

New Delhi: There was a fight over the Defense Minister Rajnath Singhremarks that freedom fighter and saffron symbol Veer Savarkar mercy petition was filed with the British at the behest of Mahatma Gandhi The BJP with documents to support its party leader’s claim and opposition leaders called the claim “false and untenable”.
of AIMIM Asaduddin Owaisi “Savarkar was involved in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. BJP will announce soon Vinayak Damodar Savarkar As the Father of the Nation.” Congress leader Jairam Ramesh shared a letter from Gandhi and commented, “Rajnath ji is among the few quiet and distinguished voices in the Modi government. But it seems he is the RSS’s attempt to rewrite history. They are not free from habit. They have given a twist to what Gandhi actually wrote on January 25, 1920. Here is the letter to Savarkar’s brother.”
Social media was flooded with various views on Savarkar as a biographer Vikram Sampath Singh came out in support and referred to the “collected works of Mahatma Gandhi”. He wrote, ‘I hope you will not say that Gandhi Ashram has tampered with these letters. You can’t feed your friends more than this with a spoon.”
BJP IT department head Amit Malviya tweeted documents including Gandhi’s writings in “Young India”. “The talent of the Savarkar brothers should be used for the welfare of the people. Anyway, India is in danger of losing her two loyal sons, unless she rises in time. I know a brother very well. I had the privilege of meeting him in London. he is brave. He is a patriot. He was clearly a revolutionary … He is in the Andaman because he loved India so well,” Gandhi wrote in Young India on May 18, 1921, which was shared by Malviya.
Praising Savarkar as a staunch nationalist and India’s first military strategist in the 20th century, Rajnath The U.S. had on Tuesday said that it was at the request of Mahatma Gandhi that he wrote mercy petitions to the British and people of Marxist and Leninist ideologies wrongly accused him of being a fascist.
He also claimed that it Moti Lal Nehru Who had petitioned for the early release of Jawaharlal Nehru in September 1923.

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