The chief minister, while inaugurating the portrait, had termed Savarkar as a great freedom fighter and philosopher whose personality is a source of inspiration for all Indians.
A portrait of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Savarkar in the picture gallery of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council has sparked a controversy, with anguished Congress MLC Deepak Singh raising an objection and writing a letter to the Chairman seeking its removal.
Chief Minister Aditynath had inaugurated the portrait on Tuesday.
In the letter to Chairman Ramesh Yadav on Tuesday, Mr Singh said: “The installation of the picture of Savarkarji along with that of great freedom fighters who withstood atrocities of the British and yet did not bow before them is an insult to all those who continued to bear all kind of tortures and kept fighting for independence.”
The picture of Veer Savarkar should be removed and be placed in the BJP parliamentary office, he further said.
Mr Singh, according to PTI, has said the Chairman has directed the principal secretary of the Council to look into the matter and take necessary action.
Akhilesh Yadav, the former Chief Minister of the state and Samajwadi Party chief, said there should be a debate among the youth about what contribution has been made by different people to the country and all those who have contributed to the freedom struggle should be honoured. But there are others on whom there are different kinds of allegations, documents and stories which raise a question mark
The chief minister, while inaugurating the portrait, had termed Savarkar as a great freedom fighter and philosopher whose personality is a source of inspiration for all Indians.
While the saffron party lauds Savarkar’s contribution to India’s freedom movement and calls him a “great patriot”, the Congress and other opposition parties have long shunned him for his alleged link to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin.
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