“It will take him many lives to be like Savarkar”: Giriraj Singh hits back at Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said, "My name is not Savarkar, my name is Gandhi. Gandhis don't apologise to anyone".
Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said, "My name is not Savarkar, my name is Gandhi. Gandhis don't apologise to anyone".
There was nothing wrong on part of the Circular Jail detainees writing petitions to the British. It was an important legal right available to prisoners. Apart from Savarkar, Barin Ghosh, HK Kanjilal and Nand Gopal also submitted petitions. However, it was only Savarkar and Barin who sought forgiveness for their revolutionary past.
Yogesh Soman, director of the Academy of Theatre Arts of the Mumbai University, had posted an 'objectionable' video criticising Rahul Gandhi over his 'Savarkar' remark.
One of the booklets had even claimed that there was a physical relationship between Godse and Savarkar.
The BJP too hit back at Rahul Gandhi, saying a 'more appropriate' name for the Congress leader is 'Rahul Jinnah' as his 'Muslim appeasement' politics makes him a worthy legatee of the Pakistan's founder.
As the years have unfolded after Independence, sparks of separation have not disappeared. Even the holy land that was Pakistan split into two within 24 years of its birth. Neither Jinnah nor Savarkar realized that Islam has never believed in a nation and cannot hold it together. It is eminently a binder of the entire ummah. Lately, in even that function, it has become shaky. The Ahmedias were expelled, now the Shias are becoming nongrata, Iran versus Saudi Arabia is hotter than a cold war. Turkey has invaded Syria.
The BJP made it a poll promise to confer the Bharat Ratna to RSS ideologue VD Savarkar in its Sankalp Patra or election manifesto for Maharashtra Assembly Election.
At the core of the entire debate on whether Savarkar should be bestowed with the country's top civilian award is a promise made to that effect by the BJP in its Sankalpa Patra or election manifesto for Maharashtra.
The attacks by the Congress came after BJP working President Amit Shah hailed Savarkar while addressing a seminar at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi.
On Tuesday, the former DUSU president Shakti Singh installed the bursts outside the Arts Faculty gate in the North campus, without permission from the university administration.
