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RSS pounces on Congress

RSS pounces on Congress

Author: Pioneer News Service/ New Delhi
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: February 26, 2003

After the Opposition onslaught, the RSS went into a tizzy and brought out a list detailing appreciation of V D Savarkar by senior Congress and Communist leaders.The list, released by the RSS joint spokesman Ram Madhav, includes senior leaders from both the parties. It lists Subhash Chandra Bose, Indira Gandhi, Y B Chavan, Gulzari Lal Nanda etc from the Congress and S A Dange and S M Joshi from the socialist stream.

When the late Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister of the country, she was quoted to have said, "Savarkar was a great figure of contemporary India and his name is a by-word for daring and name is a by-word for daring and patriotism. He was cast in the mould of a classic revolutionary and countless people drew inspiration from him."

Subhash Chandra Bose is said to have wanted Savarkar to join the Congress after he was released. Incidentally, the Opposition has charged that Savarkar wrote to the British authorities requesting for his release. The RSS claim is that his mercy petition was only a "ploy" to get out of the prison and carry forward his work.

Replying to another charge that Savarkar was accused in the Mahatma Gandhi murder case, the RSS said the court had acquitted him of all such charges. Appreciating this fact, even the very senior Congress leaders like the first President of India Dr Rajendra Prasad, his predecessor Dr Radhakrishnan and senior Congress leader Y B Chavan felicitated Savarkar in December 1960, the RSS claimed.

Some of the other Congress leaders who figure in the list include, Rajagopalachari who became the first Governor-General of free India, Joachim Alva and N C Chagla. Many like Jagjivan Ram and Gulzarilal Nanda showed concern about his health, the RSS said. Quoting socialist and Communist leaders, the RSS claimed that the Chairman of the Communist Party S A Dange said, "Savarkar was one of the great anti-imperialist revolutionaries."

Socialist leader S M Joshi is quoted as having said that he was inspired by Savarkar's call for absolute political independence. Another great thinker M N Roy is said to have desired to devote his life again to the emancipation of India on Savarkar's own line of thinking.

Mr Madhav asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to refrain from "issuing certificates of patriotism." He took serious exception to Ms Gandhi's letter to the President against the unveiling of the portrait at the central hall on Wednesday.

He also asked the Congress to come clear on Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh's recent assertion that he believed in "Savarkar's brand of Hinduism." "Not only was Mr Singh's father an MLA representing Savarkar's Hindu Mahasabha, Mr Singh himself headed the Bhopal Municipality as a Mahasabha nominee when Savarkar was alive," Mr Madhav said.
 


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