“Veer Savarkar and his friends used to dance in jubilation whenever they learned about Muslims getting killed in communal riots,” the booklet mentions
Bhopal: The All India Congress Seva Dal sparked controversy with a booklet in which it claimed that the freedom fighter and Hindu Mahasabha co-founder Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was in a “homosexual relationship” with Mahatma Gandhi’s killer Nathuram Godse.
On Thursday the booklet title named ‘Veer Savarkar Kitne Veer? (Veer Savarkar, How Brave?)’ was distributed among volunteers during the inauguration of the Seva Dal national training camp in Bhopal’s Bairagarh.
The booklet claims that Veer Savarkar was in a relationship with Godse and says that he had exhorted men to rape women of minority communities. It also blames RSS and Savarkar for the partition of the nation in 1947.
Meanwhile quoting an instance mentioned in Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins’s book ‘Freedom at Midnight’, the booklet claims, “Previously adopting Brahmacharya, there is only one mention of Godse’s physical relationship. Godse had a homosexual relationship with his political mentor Veer Savarkar.”
The booklet’s page number 14 also claims, “Savarkar also used to exhort Hindu men to rape minority women.” The booklet also laid blame on Savarkar for coming up with the two-nation theory, which sowed the seeds of bifurcation.
“Veer Savarkar and his friends used to dance in jubilation whenever they learned about Muslims getting killed in communal riots,” the booklet mentions.
In another booklet, titled ‘RSS aur BJP, Kuchh Tathya aur Jankari (RSS and BJP, Some Facts and Information)’ the Congress’s Seva Dal claims that the organization from the outset derived inspiration from fascism and Nazism. “RSS always had hero-worshiped the noted dictators –Hitler and Mussolini, the dictators of 1930s and 1940s,” mentioned in the booklet.
BJP spokesperson Rajneesh Agrawal slammed Congress over the contents of the booklet saying that the party often distorts and spreads misinformation. On charges of the RSS following Hitler and Mussolini, Agrawal stated the RSS came into existence in 1925.
Agarwal further requested Congress to compile the correct historical facts and said that it, in fact, the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who had issued a postal stamp on Savarakar calling him a freedom fighter.
The Congress Seva Dal National President Lalji Desai defended the statement of the booklet and said that they are facts. “It is important for the public to know the truth of the people who are presented as heroes by the BJP,” Desai said.
He was also quoted by saying, “In India today, everyone has the legal right to have their own preferences.” Meanwhile, the RSS national executive committee is meeting in Indore on Thursday.
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