Savarkar never considered cow as 'maata' and had no problem with beef consumption: Digvijay Singh
India | Dec 25, 2021, 06:40 PM ISTDigvijay Singh also stated that Congress has a fight with the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Digvijay Singh also stated that Congress has a fight with the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
During an address, Digvijaya Singh claimed that Hindutva had nothing to do with Hinduism.
Written and directed by Sarvesh Mewara, Tejas will feature Kangana in the role of 'Tejas Gill', an Indian Air Force pilot. On Tuesday (October 26), the actress paid a visit to Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s jail cell at Kala Pani, Port Blair, Andaman.
Asaduddin Owaisi said that the BJP will soon declare Veer Savarkar as 'the father of the nation'.
Rajnath Singh said that Veer Savarkar's commitment for freedom was so strong that the British sentenced him to life imprisonment twice.
The RSS chief was speaking at the book launch — ‘Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition.
Savarkar was born in 1883 in Maharashtra, and is seen as a hero, especially to parties and organisations which subscribe to Hindutva views.
A day after the BJP slammed Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray for being silent on the Congress's criticism of V D Savarkar, the Shiv Sena on Monday hit back and asked why the BJP has not yet given Bharat Ratna to the late Hindutva ideologue.
"Most likely the announcement of conferring Bharat Ratna to Veer Savarkar and Syama Prasad Mookerjee will be made on the upcoming Republic Day", the national president of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha Swami Chakrapani Maharaj told IANS on Monday.
Senior BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain on Sunday night said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had "insulted" his grandmother and late prime minister Indira Gandhi by his utterances on V D Savarkar.
A day after Rahul Gandhi's statement at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi, Veer Savarkar's grandson Ranjit Savarkar said that the Gandhi scion must be charged under sedition law. He hit out at the Congress MP from Wayanad, for dragging the surname for his political rally.
He also attacked the Congress, saying it is no longer the party of freedom struggle but was reduced to a slave of a dynasty. Later, speaking to a private TV channel, he expressed hope that the Congress' ally in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena, would beat him (Gandhi) up with 'shoes' for the insult meted out to his grandfather.
Rahul courted controversy over his "rape in India" remark at an election rally in Godda, Jharkhand, which led to ruckus in Parliament. The BJP had sought apology from Rahul for making that statement.
Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha MP, Sanjay Raut on Saturday reacted to Rahul Gandhi's aggressive remark on Veer Savarkar and said that Veer Savarkar is an idol for the entire nation and must be respected.
A photograph of nationalist leader Veer Savarkar was defaced at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Tuesday. The incident came to light this morning when students of M.A. first year reached their classroom and saw the photograph of Savarkar lying on the ground. The photo of Savarkar had ink splashed on his face.
"I personally don't subscribe to Savarkar's ideology but that doesn't take away the fact that he was an accomplished man who played a part in our freedom struggle, fight for Dalit rights and went to jail for the country."
The BJP, popularly known as the saffron party, had always been vocal about nationalist ideology and has praised the valour of freedom fighters and social reformers. The party has recently stirred a controversy after it proposed Veer Savarkar's name for Bharat Ratna.
The complaint was filed by Ranjit Savarkar, grandson of the Hindutva ideologue, in Bhoiwada magistrate's court.
Reiterating his demand of Bharat Ratna posthumously for Veer Savarkar, Thackeray said while the contributions of both Gandhiji and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru for the nation's development cannot be denied, the country's political landscape was not limited to only two families.
The Congress-affiliated National Students' Union of India (NSUI) had on Thursday said it blackened the bust of Savarkar while garlanding those of Bhagat Singh and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, installed by the ABVP-led Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) at the Delhi University.
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