New Delhi, November 2
Historian and author S Irfan Habib on Saturday alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) “has been appropriating” national icons like Sardar Patel, Bhagat Singh and Subhas Chandra Bose as it didn’t have any of its own with whom the people of India could connect.
“Be it Sardar Patel, Bose or Bhagat Singh, the RSS has been appropriating icons since forever. Tell me one name they have backed who was one of their own,” the author said during a session titled ‘Savarkar and Hindutva’ at the ongoing Sahitya Aaj Tak at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
“They don’t have anyone they can take to the people, anyone with whom people of India can connect,” he added.
RSS thinker Desh Ratan Nigam, in his rebuttal, attacked the past governments led by the Congress, alleging that that they neglected these icons. — PTI
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