Ironically, what the Congress forgets is that their own ideological father, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a similar mercy petition to the Britishers.Let me remind to Rahul Gandhi that a chapter [“An interlude at nabha”] in Nehru’s autobiography “Toward freedom”.
#VeerSavarkar
#VeerSavarkar
Will you describe in your own words what happened in nabha? The ceremony was presided over by the veteran politician & statesman Lord Fenner Brockway, in the concluding part of his emotional message he said
"Savarkar of course I never met, but whatever I have read and heard about him, I have no hitch in saying that when Savarkar was fighting here for his motherland , the Indian national congress had not even thought of it."
28th may 1883 was the day when a true son of mother-India was born. A controversial figure for many but a nationalist for the rest, he was the true amalgamation of sharp intellect and bravery. .
His contribution in freedom struggle has many admirers but few in the ideological opposite extremes have been very critical of him.
Hence, It was though not shocking but definitely disappointing, to see congressmen regularly hurling abuses to Savarkar and went to an extent of removing a part of chapter from textbooks in Rajasthan.
I was deeply hurt and wanted to know, why so much hatred for a man who sacrificed a major part of his life serving a jail term, which was so rigorous that it fills nationalists with anger
Not everybody in congress hated Savarkar, Indira Gandhi was full of praise for a man who was an inspiration to every revolutionary India produced in the 20th century. In a note to Pandit Bakhle she wrote
“veer savarkar’s daring defiance of the British government has its own important place in the annals of our freedom movement. I wish success to the plans to celebrate the birth centenary of this remarkable son of India..
He was also the only man who gifted Indians the saga of 1st war of independence from an Indian point of view [The Indian war of independence of 1857 by an Indian nationalist] at the age of 24.
He had so many layers in his life, yet the liberal gang paint him as traitor and a coward because he wrote so-called mercy petitions. Debating with a congressman is a useless attempt..
tell me,why after serving 10 years of rigorous punishment Savarkar is called a coward & traitor and Nehru on the other hand,who served jail terms in cosy places, attended visitors, wrote books, even got his sentence reduced to visit his ailing wife is celebrated as a bold leader.
Nehru never faced the kind of ordeal Savarkar went through, yet here he was the freedom fighter we should respect and Savarkar, a traitor we must abhor...
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