New Delhi: After Rajnath Singh claimed that Hindutva icon Vinayak Damodar Savarkar wrote mercy petitions to the British rule on Mahatma Gandhi’s request, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday slammed the Union Defense Minister and alleged that soon the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ) will declare Savarkar. “Father of the Nation.”
“They (BJP) are projecting a distorted history. If this continues, they will remove Mahatma Gandhi and Savarkar, who was accused of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination and was declared a participant in the investigation of Justice Jeevan Lal Kapoor , as a father to the nation,” Owaisi said while talking to news agency ANI.
The Hyderabad MP’s remarks came after Singh said that Savarkar had filed a mercy petition with the British regime while imprisoned in the Andaman Jail on the suggestion of Mahatma Gandhi, but those following Marxist and Leninist ideology denounced him as a fascist. accuse of being
Speaking at the launch of a book on Savarkar, Singh described him as a “national icon” and also said that lies were repeatedly spread about Savarkar.
Singh said this while speaking at an event to release a book on Savarkar: Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Can Prevent Partition.
Even Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, who was present at the event, echoed similar sentiments about Savarkar.
Bhagwat said that Savarkar’s ideology of Hindutva never suggested to differentiate between people on the basis of their culture and method of worshiping God.
Meanwhile, reacting to Owaisi’s remark, Savarkar’s grandson – Ranjit Savarkar said that he does not think of Mahatma Gandhi as the father of the nation.
He told ANI, “There cannot be one Father of the Nation in a country like India, there are thousands who have been forgotten.”
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