Mumbai: The Congress party seems to be getting isolated in Maharashtra after the controversial statements made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi regarding Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, i.e., Veer Savarkar, popularly known as Swatantraveer. First, former CM Uddhav Thackeray opposed it. After this, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has dealt another blow to its alliance partner Congress by describing Savarkar as great. In fact, NCP chief Pawar said on Saturday (April 1) that Savarkar had a scientific outlook and was a progressive person. Along with this, he also said that Rahul Gandhi's statements regarding Savarkar have created a political controversy, which is distracting the public from serious issues.

Sharad Pawar further said that he too had made some statements regarding Savarkar, but they were specifically in relation to the Hindu Mahasabha. Whose leader was Savarkar. Describing Veer Savarkar as a very progressive leader of his era, Sharad Pawar said, 'Savarkar had built a temple in front of his house and entrusted its responsibility to a member of the Valmiki (Dalit) community.' Let us inform you that earlier, Shiv Sena (UBT) had said that it would not tolerate Rahul Gandhi's comments on Savarkar. Rahul Gandhi termed Savarkar a coward and said that he had apologised to the British for his freedom. Not only this, after being disqualified from the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi said, 'I am not Savarkar; I am Gandhi. I will not apologise.'

Savarkar is the only revolutionary in the country, due to whose activities the British had sentenced him to two births of Kalapani, that is, he had to stay in the cellular jail for 50 years after suffering severe torture. The intention of the British was clear: Savarkar, a prisoner with the D (for dangerous) tag, should be killed in the jail itself. After extracting oil like Kolu's bull in the dark cell of Kalapani for many years, thoughts of suicide started coming into Savarkar's mind. After a lot of hesitation, Savarkar decided that if he had to die, he would die only after killing the enemy of the country, not like a coward, and this work was not possible without coming out of jail. After which he wrote an apology to come out of jail and, after coming out of jail, became the inspiration for many revolutionaries like Madanlal Dhingra and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. It was Savarkar who wrote a book proving the struggle of 1857 as the first freedom struggle. Which was no less than a scripture for the revolutionaries. This struggle was suppressed by the British as a military rebellion, but after reading the book of Veer Savarkar, many revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh took inspiration and contributed to the freedom of the country. While she was PM, Indira Gandhi issued a postal stamp in honour of Veer Savarkar and wrote a letter describing Savarkar as the wonderful son of Maa Bharti.

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