Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday lashed out at the Opposition leaders in the state Legislative Council over Veer Savarkar's "insult", and said that even if the freedom fighter doesn't get Bharat Ratna, the leaders should "stop insulting him".
Karnataka Minister of School Education, BC Nagesh on Wednesday said that it is our responsibility to ensure that the next generation knows about our freedom fighters.
Siddaramaiah said this was a tactic to divert the attention of people, "In order to divert the attention of people, they are doing this. We will not continue with the protest. It is a symbolic demand made by the Congress Legislature party. The Speaker should have taken the confidence of t
Meanwhile, the BJP has hit out against the Opposition protests. "There must be ideological differences but Savarkar is a freedom fighter, then ask Siddaramaiah, whose poster must be put, of Dawood Ibrahim?," Union Minister Pralhad Joshi said today in Delhi outside the Parliament.
Addressing a rally in the state on Sunday, he attacked the former Congress national president, saying, "You Idiot. What is your standing to speak on Savarkar, who was lodged in jail and went through so much pain?"
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In a letter to PM Modi dated November 19, Chakrapani said that the Hindu Mahasabha has decided to install a statue of Veer Savarkar in front of the Congress headquarters in the national capital.
"Rahul Gandhi is one such person who stays connected as friends against ideological and political differences. I have friends in BJP as well but they were happy when I was in jail, this is politics of the Mughal era," he said.
Rahul Gandhi, reading from a letter purportedly written by Savarkar to the British, claimed the saffron ideologue betrayed leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel by signing on a letter of apology to the British before independence.
While addressing the press conference, the BJYM President alleged said that Rahul Gandhi always speaks something illicit about Veer Savarkar, and he made it absolutely clear what he intended.
A day after he warned of a split in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance over Rahul Gandhi's remarks on Veer Savarkar, Shiv Sena- Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray MP Sanjay Raut Raut on Saturday said that this country is Jawaharlal Nehru's land.
"Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak remained in Mandalay jail for 6 years, he did not apologised. Sardar Bhagat Singh was hanged and he also did not apologised. Similarly, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel also did not apologised," Baghel said.