The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on Monday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s attack on freedom fighter V D Savarkar will lead to the ebbing of sympathy he has gained due to his disqualification as Lok Sabha MP.
An editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana said the truth, which Gandhi is fighting for today, will not win by making defamatory statements against Savarkar.
At a rally, Uddhav Thackeray said he considers V D Savarkar as his ‘idol’, and asked Gandhi to refrain from ‘insulting’ him.
Thackeray said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance of three parties — Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party — was formed to protect democracy and it was necessary to work unitedly for it.
‘By making defamatory statements against Savarkar, the sympathy gained by Rahul Gandhi will start ebbing. This will, for sure, put the Maharashtra Congress in a uncomfortable position,” the editorial said.
Th editorial also stated that Gandhi’s remarks that he is not Savarkar to apologise will not affect the faith of the people in the Hindutva ideologue.
Without naming Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the editorial said a dictator is always scared and that he first starts controlling the judiciary and parliament and destroys the opposition. This is precisely called slavery, the editorial said.
It said Savarkar pledged to fight such slavery at the age of 12 and Gandhi should take a similar oath.
On March 24, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as Lok Sabha MP after the Surat court sentenced him to two years in jail in a defamation case.
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