The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) clashed over the central authorities’s choice to call a Delhi College (DU) faculty after Hindutva idol Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, for which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ready to put down the muse stone on Friday.
Delhi BJP president Virender Sachdeva. (PTI)
Whereas Congress leaders criticised the selection of title for Veer Savarkar School in Najafgarh, the BJP hit again alleging that the Congress now identifies itself solely by “insulting great people”.
The Congress on Friday accused the BJP of “glorifying those who submitted mercy petitions to the British.”
Get together Rajya Sabha MP Naseer Hussain mentioned, “The BJP is legitimising those who collaborated with the British, ignoring freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives for the country… Many people lived for the country and hugely contributed to the freedom struggle. The BJP is giving legitimacy to those people who have written mercy petitions to the British and accepted pensions from them.”
The BJP hit again, with the social gathering’s Delhi chief Virendra Sachdeva defending Savarkar as a freedom fighter who “fought for independence and was jailed.”
“Veer Savarkar was a freedom fighter. He fought a battle for the country’s independence and was jailed. He started the movement to burn foreign clothes under Tilak. The Congress never respects the freedom fighters. If Delhi University is naming its college in honour of Veer Savarkar, then we welcome it,” Sachdeva mentioned.
BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla accused Congress of repeatedly insulting outstanding figures, including that even Indira Gandhi and Uddhav Thackeray had praised Savarkar.
“Insulting great people has become the identity of Congress. Rahul Gandhi has yet again insulted Veer Savarkar through one of his MPs, Naseer Hussain… I ask Naseer Hussain Ji, whether Indira Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray, or Shivraj Singh Chouhan were also wrong since all of them have praised the greatness of Savarkar?” Poonawalla mentioned.
Title faculty after Manmohan Singh: NSUI
The Congress’s college students wing, the Nationwide College students’ Union of India (NSUI), on Friday known as for the brand new faculty to be named after Congress chief and former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who handed away on December 26.
NSUI President Varun Choudhary wrote to PM Modi, highlighting Singh’s contributions to schooling and urging the institution of establishments in his title.
“Dear Narendra Modi Ji, as you inaugurate a college in the name of VD Savarkar, NSUI demands the new DU college be named after former PM Dr Manmohan Singh Ji. He established numerous universities and brought the Central Universities Act. A central university must also be dedicated to his name. His visionary leadership in education transformed India. Let’s honour his legacy.”
DU has not but commented on the controversy.