The Bharatiya Janata Party’s legislators wore caps with ‘I am Savarkar’ written on them on Monday to protest Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remark against VD Savarkar on first day of maha assembly winter session.
Former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and The Leader of Opposition in the state assembly demanded an “unconditional apology” from Rahul Gandhi over his remark on Savarkar.
“Congress leader Rahul Gandhi should tender an unconditional apology over his remarks on Savarkar. He does not seem to have studied India’s history of the Independence movement,” Fadnavis said.
Meanwhile The Shiv Sena, the Congress’ alliance partner in Maharashtra, called Savarkar a “God” who should be “respected” hours after Rahul Gandhi’s Savarkar comment.
The Sena’s senior leader Sanjay Raut took to Twitter and indirectly asked Rahul not to “insult” Savarkar.but Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray criticised BJP over allowing persecuted minorities into India under the new citizenship law, saying it is an “insult” to V D Savarkar who sought to bring land from the Sindhu river to Kanyakumari under “one country”.
On Friday, the Congress leader refused to apologise for his remark and said that the issue is being raised by the BJP to deflect the attention of the people from protests in North-East over Citizen Amendment Act.
