All true: Congress stands by its statements against Savarkar

Mangalore Today News Network

Bhopal, Jan 04 2020: Despite a nationwide debate over the distribution of controversial literature on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar at the Congress Seva Dal camp in Bhopal, the dal’s national president Lalji Desai has said that he stands by the allegations as they are all true.

 

Congress Seva Dal is distributing a booklet on Savarkar in the ongoing training camp in Bhopal. The booklet says that Savarkar had a homosexual relationship with Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse. The booklet has caused a major political furor as the BJP has slammed Congress and demanded an immediate withdrawal of the literature.

However, while speaking to India Today TV, Lalji Desai said that the Congress has not distributed anything wrong on Savarkar. "Rather, it is literature that is already in public domain," he said.

"’RSS and Hindu Mahasabha had no contribution in the independence struggle, so BJP wanted one of their members to stand like a hero, hence they talked Savarkar up. But they have made a big mistake. Savarkar is the same man who apologised to the British 11 times, apologised in writing nine times," Lalji Desai said. He further added, "Bhagat Singh did not apologise to the British. Those who know the entire country and history know that apart from Savarkar and the Sanghis, no one apologised to the British."

On writing objectionable facts about Godse and Savarkar in the book, Lalji Desai said, "What we have written about Godse and Savarkar is from page number 423 of book Freedom at Night, in which the author has written the relationship."

Even as the booklet, titled How brave was Veer Savarkar, is causing uproar, lalji Desai refused to withdraw it and said that the seva dal will continue distributing the booklet.

"The same literature will be provided in the camps of Congress Seva Dal in future as well, so that people who are bent on calling Godse and Savarkar as patriots in the country could be saved from that propaganda," he told India Today TV.

Courtesy: Indiatoday