MUMBAI: Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s grandson Tushar Gandhi alleged that RSS BJP ideologue VD Savarkar not only helped the Britishers but he also helped Nathuram Godse to get an efficient gun to murder the Bapu, Mahatma Gandhi.
\nThe VD Savarkar controversy is unlikely to die soon. After Rahul Gandhi\u2019s allegations that VD Savarkar filed the mercy petitions while other freedom fighters sacrificed their lives. Mr Gandhi alleged BJP RSS ideologue was against the freedom of India, he took pensions from Britishers and even helped them.
\nThen, Tushar Gandhi who walked with Rahul Gandhi in Bharat Jodi Yatra in Buldhana district levelled another serious allegation against VD Savarkar. Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s grandson on social media stated, “Savarkar not only helped the British, but he also helped Nathuram Godse find an efficient gun to murder Bapu. Till two days before Bapu\u2019s Murder, Godse did not have a reliable weapon to carry out the murder of M. K. Gandhi\u201d.
\nTushar Gandhi further said, \u201cWhen in 1930s several attempts were made on Bapu\u2019s life. Prabodhankar Thackerey forewarned Bapu\u2019s companions about a plot to kill Bapu in Akola, Vidarbha and saved Bapu\u2019s life. He then issued a public warning to Sanatani Hindu organisations & their leadership in Maharashtra to desist from their murderous attacks on Bapu.\u201d
\n\u201cSavarkar actively helped the British during the Second World War. He continued doing so even after knowing that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his INA were fighting the British, this is an undeniable historic fact,\u201d Tushar Gandhi added on his social media account.
\nReacting to Uddhav Thackeray’s disassociating Rahul Gandhi’s remark against VD Savarkar for filing a mercy petition and helping Britishers, Tushar Gandhi said \u201cSavarkar and Hedgewar were leaders of Sanatani Hindus this Prabodhankar\u2019s warning was addressed to them, Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackerey, must be reminded of this bit of their history.
\nMaharashtra Congress president Nana Patole said that VD Savarkar’s writing is objectionable. He said Savarkar in his controversial book, \u2018Six Glorious Epoch\u2019 stated that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s son Sambhaji Maharaj was unfit to carry forward the legacy of Shivaji Maharaj and even called him unfit as a king to run the Maratha kingdom, calling him drunkard, womanizer and short-tempered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUMBAI: Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s grandson Tushar Gandhi alleged that RSS BJP ideologue VD Savarkar not only helped the Britishers but he also helped Nathuram Godse to get an efficient gun to murder the Bapu, Mahatma Gandhi. The VD Savarkar controversy is unlikely to die soon. After Rahul Gandhi\u2019s allegations that VD Savarkar filed the mercy petitions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[53],"class_list":{"0":"post-2438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-the-nf-times"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/TG_1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}