‘BJP may even give Bharat Ratna to Godse’: Owaisi slams RSS chief’s Savarkar remarks | India News
AIMIM President Asaduddin Waisi On Monday, he criticized the BJP-led government RSS On the Sangh chief’s comments in favor of giving the Bharat Ratna to Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar, the party “will not hesitate to award even the country’s highest civilian honour. Mahatma GandhiIts killer, Nathuram Godse.”YC’s comments came after the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat recently said that conferring the Bharat Ratna on Savarkar would enhance the prestige of the award.YC also referred to the JL Kapur Commission report on Gandhi’s assassination, noting that Justice Kapur identified Savarkar as a conspirator. “A person involved in the assassination of Gandhi – you are asking for the Bharat Ratna for him. Congratulations. The time will come when BJP It can even be given to God,” he said.Addressing a rally in Mahabubnagar while campaigning for the Telangana municipal elections, Waisi recounted the historical incident of Maulvi Alauddin, the then Imam of Hyderabad’s Mecca Masjid, who was arrested for attacking the British Residency during the First War of Independence in 1857. He was sent to a cellular jail in the Andaman Islands, known as ‘Kala Pani’, where he later died.Without specifically naming Savarkar, the Hyderabad MP said the RSS was pushing for the Bharat Ratna for a man who had submitted six mercy petitions to the British. He questioned the Sangh about who was the first inmate of the cellular jail, claiming that it was Maulvi Alauddin, not a member of the RSS.
