Ahmedabad: Amid the Congress' 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' passing through Maharashtra, former party president Rahul Gandhi has created a new political controversy by directly attacking Vinayak Damodar Savarkar i.e. Veer Savarkar. Rahul Gandhi had on Thursday claimed that Savarkar had helped the British and betrayed Mahatma Gandhi and other contemporary Indian leaders by signing an apology out of fear while in jail. But, in the midst of all this, the question floating in the political corridors is, what must have been the intention of the Congress behind deliberately raising the issue of Savarkar?
According to sources, Rahul Gandhi has done all this under a special strategy. For this, Rahul Gandhi himself had prepared the ground and deliberately fuelled the controversy by calling Savarkar an apology hero while reciting the poems in the glory of Lord Birsa Munda on his birth anniversary. That is why when Rahul was questioned about Savarkar in the press conference, Rahul Gandhi fired his arrow. In fact, political pundits believe that all this has been done to attract a particular vote bank. The Congress wants to swing the Muslim vote in its favor by attacking Hindutva ideologue Savarkar.
It is also being said that the Congress and Rahul Gandhi want the debate on Savarkar to be intensified in view of the Gujarat elections so that things like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's ban on RSS after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and Savarkar's arrest, come into the headlines and the Political benefit of this will be given to the Congress. So the Congress, not mentioning the 10 difficult years Savarkar spent in Kalapani and the 5-year sentence served in other jails, just rakes up the issue of his apology.
Even Congress ignores Indira Gandhi's letter in which she described Veer Savarkar as a 'great son' of Mother India. On 20 May 1980, then PM Indira Gandhi mentioned Savarkar's contribution in a letter addressed to Pandit Bakhale, Secretary, Swatantraveer Savarkar National Memorial. In this letter, Indira has written, 'I received your letter on 8 May 1980. Veer Savarkar's strong resistance against the British government is very important for our freedom movement. I congratulate you for organizing the centenary celebrations of the Remarkable Son of India.'
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