BJP Will Soon Declare Savarkar As “Father Of The Nation”: Asaduddin Owaisi.
Attacking Defense Minister Rajnath Singh for his comment that “at the request of Mahatma Gandhi’s, Savarkar wrote petitions for clemency to the British,” AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that the BJP will soon declare Vinayak Damodar Savarkar the father. of the nation.
Attacking Defense Minister Rajnath Singh for his comment that “at the request of Mahatma Gandhi’s, Savarkar wrote petitions for clemency to the British,”
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi alleged on Tuesday that the BJP will soon declare Vinayak Damodar Savarkar a the father of the nation.
Speaking to news agencies, Mr. Owaisi said: “They (BJP) are presenting a distorted story. If this continues, they will eliminate Mahatma Gandhi and make Savarkar, who was charged with the murder of Mahatma Gandhi and found an accessory of the investigation of Justice Jeevan Lal Kapur, as the father of the nation “.
Earlier on Tuesday, the defense minister has stated that it was at the request of Mahatma Gandhis that Savarkar wrote clemency petitions to the British.
He spoke at the book launch Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition.
“Lies were spread about Savarkar. Time and again, he was said to have filed clemency petitions with the British government seeking his release from prison.
It was Mahatma Gandhi who asked him to present pleas for clemency, “Singh said at the event.