Dehradun: Uttarakhand minister Ganesh Joshi has stirred a controversy by saying that martyrdom is not the monopoly of the Gandhi family and that the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were mere ‘accidents’. “I pity the intelligence of Rahul Gandhi. Martyrdom is not the monopoly of the Gandhi family. India’s freedom struggle saw the martyrdoms of Bhagat Singh, Savarkar and Chandrashekhar Azad. What happened to the members of the Gandhi family was an accident. Accidents And there’s a difference between accidents.” Martyrdom,” Joshi said.
“But one can speak according to the level of his intelligence,” the minister told reporters in Srinagar in response to a question about the Congress leader’s concluding speech at the end of his Bharat Jodo visit.
Joshi, who is the Minister for Agriculture, Farmers Welfare, Rural Development and Sainik Welfare, also credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the smooth conclusion of Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir.
“The credit goes to the Prime Minister. Had Article 370 not been abrogated and normalcy returned to Jammu and Kashmir under his leadership, Rahul Gandhi would not have been able to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk. BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi when Jammu- The tricolor was hoisted at Lal Chowk when violence was at its peak in Kashmir.
Recalling the moments when he was told over phone call about the assassination of his grandmother and father, former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the pain of those who instigated the violence will never be felt. Will not understand
The instigators of violence like Modiji, Amit Shahji, BJP and RSS will never understand this pain. The army jawan’s family will understand, the CRPF jawan’s family who was martyred in Pulwama will understand, Kashmiris will understand the pain when someone receives that call.