New Delhi, October 21
Senior Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi praised Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on Monday, saying he was an “accomplished man” who played a part in the freedom struggle, fought for Dalit rights and went to jail for the country, days after the BJP’s Maharashtra unit proposed a Bharat Ratna for him.
Singhvi, however, said he did not subscribe to Savarkar’s ideology, while noting that one could not agree with the jingoism or “violent elements of Savarkar’s nationalism” nor with his “vicious anti-Gandhism”.
He said one could accept that Savarkar was imbued by nationalist motives. Commonly known as Veer Savarkar, he was an Independence activist, politician, lawyer, writer and the formulator of the Hindutva philosophy. The Rajya Sabha MP tweeted with the hashtag ‘never forget’. — TNS
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