Thread by @_nehruvian

"If the Hindu tyrannize over the Muslims, with what face will they talk of a World Federation? Those Hindus who, like, Dr Moonje and Shri #Savarkar, believe in the doctrine of the sword may seek to keep the Muslims under the Hindu domination. (1/n).

I do not represent that section. I represent the Congress".(2/n)___ Mahatma Gandhi on VD #Savarkar.

"Strange as it may appear, Mr. #Savarkar and Mr. Jinnah, instead of being opposed to each other on the one nation versus two nations issue, are in complete agreement about it. Both agree, not only agree but insist, that there are two nations in India (3/n).

—one the Muslim nation and the other the Hindu nation."__ Dr B.R Ambedkar on VD #Savarkar.

(4/n).

" I would request Mr Jinnah, Mr #Savarkar, and all those leaders who still think of a compromise with the British, to realise once for all that in the world of tomorrow, there will be no British Empire. (5/n).

All those individuals, groups or parties who now participate in the fight for freedom will have an honoured place in the India of tomorrow … The supporters of British imperialism will naturally become non-entities in a free India…”__ Subhas Chandra Bose on VD #Savarkar.
(6/n)

@ProfChaman in his introduction to Bhagat Singh Reader stated that " Though , there is no reference of Veer #Savarkar writing a tribute on to Bhagat Singh on his death, whereas other national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel (7/n).

Maulana Azad, Subhas Bose, Periyar, and Dr Ambedkar ,all paid their tributes to these revolutionaries, even while disagreeing with his views".

(8/n).

“It was a fanatical wing of the Hindu Mahasabha directly under #Savarkar that [hatched] the conspiracy and saw it through.” __Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to Jawaharlal Nehru on February 27, 1948 about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi about role of #Savarkar.

(9/n).

Justice Jeevan Lal Kapur's Commission of Inquiry on murder of Mahatma Gandhi found: "All these facts taken together were destructive of any theory other than the conspiracy to murder by #Savarkar and his group" (p. 303)

(n/n).