Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar filed mercy petitions before the British but after Mahatma Gandhi suggested it, claimed Union D...
Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar filed mercy petitions before the British but after Mahatma Gandhi suggested it, claimed Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday.
“The truth is he did not file these petitions for his release,” Rajnath claimed at the launch of a book titled Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition. “Generally a prisoner has [the] right to file a mercy petition. Mahatma Gandhi had asked that he [Savarkar] file a mercy petition.”
#WATCH | Lies were spread about Savarkar. Time & again, it was said that he filed mercy petitions before British Govt seeking his release from jail... It was Mahatma Gandhi who asked him to file mercy petitions: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at launch of a book on Savarkar y'day pic.twitter.com/Pov4mI0Ieg
— ANI (@ANI) October 13, 2021
Singh added: “And Mahatma Gandhi had appealed that Savarkar should be released. He had said that the way we [Indian freedom fighters] are running a movement for freedom peacefully, so would Savarkar.”
The Hindutva ideologue was imprisoned for two terms of 50 years each for waging a war against the British King and the assassination of a government official. Savarkar was sent to the Cellular Jail in the Andamans in 1911.
Several users on social media pointed out that Singh’s statement...
