New Delhi: Shiv Sena Party chief Uddhav Thackeray has said that if Veer Savarkar had been the first PM of this country, Pakistan would not have been born. At the same time, Thackeray also demanded the country's highest award Bharat Ratna for Veer Savarkar and said that our government is the government of Hindutva.

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This was stated by Thackeray on the special occasion of the release of an autobiography 'Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past' and further stated that Savarkar should be honored with Bharat Ratna. According to him, we do not deny the work done by Gandhi and Nehru, although the country has seen more than two families descend on the political scene.

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Uddhav further went on to add that he had no objection to calling Nehru a heroic if he had been like Savarkar within the jail for 14 minutes. While Savarkar was in jail for 14 years. At the same time, Uddhav attacked the former Congress National President Rahul Gandhi and said that former Congress President Gandhi should read the new book and also know more about Savarkar's works. Let us tell you that at an election rally by Rahul Gandhi in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, it was said that Veer Savarkar had apologized to the British for getting freedom from prison. Veer Savarkar is believed to have popularized the term "Hindutva".

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