national student union India (NSUI), Mumbai has objected to the recommendation by the Maharashtra government to name the new International Student Hostel facility at Mumbai University after Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, commonly known as Veer Savarkar. The students’ union, in a letter addressed to the Governor of Maharashtra, said that Savarkar “not only refrained from participating in the freedom struggle” but also “actively supported the British rulers”.
In its letter, NSUI Mumbai urged that the hostel facility should be named only after an eminent personality who has contributed to the welfare of the fraternity of students irrespective of religion, caste or creed.
The letter states, “At the time Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was forming his Indian National Army to face the British in India, Savarkar helped the colonial government recruit millions of Indians into its armed forces. He further destabilized the freedom movement by taking forward his communal ideology, which deepened the communal divide at a time when a united front was needed against colonial rule.
“Shri Savarkar has been described in the popular imagination as ‘Veer Savarkar’ – he not only refrained from participating in the freedom struggle when the British released him from prison because of his relentless pleas for mercy, but He also actively supported the English rulers to whom he actively supported. had declared his loyalty,” the letter added.
NUSI suggested that the new facility should be named after Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj, who “was a firm believer in the principle that administration is for the welfare of the people.” In its letter, the student wing said, “Several eminent practical steps which he took to improve the condition of the downtrodden and the downtrodden included the abolition of bonded labor and the provision of education and employment even in that distant time. Backward and Dalit square.”
Advocating to name the new facility after Chhatrapati Shahuji, the student body said, “He opened the doors of education and public offices to all. In Maharashtra he pioneered free education and set up a chain of hostels where children of the poor would be housed free of cost.
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