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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today countered Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks about Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar’s mercy petitions to the British when jailed during the freedom struggle.
Fadnavis claimed that the remarks were just to seek attention since no one was paying attention to the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Maharashtra.
Mr Fadnavis said even Mahatma Gandhi had used the same signoff as Savarkar did, ‘I beg to remain, sir, your most obedient servant’, in letters to the British.
वैसे ही देश आपको सदा पुछता रहा है,
— Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) November 18, 2022
अगर ऐसे ही सिलेक्टीव्ह चीज़े पढ़ते रहोगे,
तो देश, कई पिढीयों तक आपको यह सवाल पुछता रहेगा,
अरे भाई आख़िर कहना क्या चाहते हो…#VeerSavarkar
While VD Savarkar’s letter was a mercy petition, Mahatma Gandhi — in the 1920 letter, a part of which Mr Fadnavis shared — was apparently telling the British about non-cooperation being a valid form of protest.
Mentioning specific phrases, Mr Fadnavis also shared “a letter from 1980” in which former PM Indira Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi’s grandmother, called VD Savarkar a “pillar of the freedom movement” and “remarkable son of India”.
