Maharashtra Congress state president Harshvardhan Sapkal, along with other party leaders, criticised a statement made by an Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena leader from Nashik, Bala Darade, that Rahul Gandhi's face would be blackened for "insulting" the late Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, when Rahul visits Nashik.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has refused to entertain the plea of Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi to interfere in the proceedings of a lower court over his remarks on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, who is also the Chancellor of state universities, has expressed his displeasure over the banner against VD Savarkar that was previously put up by the SFI, the students’ wing of the CPI-M, on the campus of Calicut University.
The four-member team comprised LB Bhupatkar, the man who would later defend Savarkar in the Gandhi Assassination case in 1948, DV Gokhle, KV Kelkar and MR Dhamdhere.
Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said, "My name is not Savarkar, my name is Gandhi. Gandhis don't apologise to anyone".
There was nothing wrong on part of the Circular Jail detainees writing petitions to the British. It was an important legal right available to prisoners. Apart from Savarkar, Barin Ghosh, HK Kanjilal and Nand Gopal also submitted petitions. However, it was only Savarkar and Barin who sought forgiveness for their revolutionary past.
Yogesh Soman, director of the Academy of Theatre Arts of the Mumbai University, had posted an 'objectionable' video criticising Rahul Gandhi over his 'Savarkar' remark.
One of the booklets had even claimed that there was a physical relationship between Godse and Savarkar.
The BJP too hit back at Rahul Gandhi, saying a 'more appropriate' name for the Congress leader is 'Rahul Jinnah' as his 'Muslim appeasement' politics makes him a worthy legatee of the Pakistan's founder.
As the years have unfolded after Independence, sparks of separation have not disappeared. Even the holy land that was Pakistan split into two within 24 years of its birth. Neither Jinnah nor Savarkar realized that Islam has never believed in a nation and cannot hold it together. It is eminently a binder of the entire ummah. Lately, in even that function, it has become shaky. The Ahmedias were expelled, now the Shias are becoming nongrata, Iran versus Saudi Arabia is hotter than a cold war. Turkey has invaded Syria.
