Rahul dares Shinde govt to cease his yatra over Savarkar comment

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Thursday dared the BJP-Shinde state authorities to cease his Bharat Jodo Yatra, which is at the moment going by way of Maharashtra.

Rahul Gandhi stood agency on his remarks on VD Savarkar that the Hindutva ideologue “wrote mercy petitions to the British and accepted pension’ and that he did so due to worry”. Rahul Gandhi mentioned on Thursday, “I’m very clear he helped the British”.

“See this. That is crucial doc for me. That is the doc that includes Savarkar’s letter to [the] British by which he has said ‘I encourage to stay, sir, your most obedient servant, VD Savarkar,” Gandhi mentioned on Thursday.

Gandhi went forward and translated the English traces to Hindi and mentioned, “Sir, essential aapka naukar rehna chaahta hoon“. “This isn’t written by me… however Savarkarji. Let everybody learn this doc,” Rahul Gandhi added.

“I’m very clear that he helped the British,” he mentioned, brandishing the letter he mentioned Savarkar wrote to the British; sections of which had been highlighted in blue.

“Savarkar signed this letter whereas Mahatma Gandhi, pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had been in jail for years… didn’t write any letter. I imagine Savarkarji signed this letter due to worry,” the Congress chief mentioned.

In the meantime, former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, who heads a faction of the Shiv Sena, on Thursday mentioned his occasion has immense respect for VD Savarkar and he doesn’t approve of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on the liberty fighter.

Speaking to reporters, Thackeray additionally requested why the Centre has not conferred the Bharat Ratna on Savarkar.

The Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction has an alliance with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Occasion, as a part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi.

Throughout a rally in Washim district on Tuesday organised as a part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi mentioned Savarkar is an emblem of the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

“He was jailed in Andaman for two-three years. He began writing mercy petitions,” the Congress MP had mentioned.

The previous Congress president had claimed Savarkar wrote a e book on himself with a distinct identify and highlighted how courageous he was. “He used to take pension from the British, work for them, and work towards the Congress,” Gandhi had mentioned.

Thackeray on Thursday mentioned, “We don’t approve of Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on Savarkar. We have now immense respect and religion for Swatyantra Veer Savarkar and it can’t be erased.