Katju's comments on Gandhiji, Netaji condemned in Parliament

Katju, also a former supreme court judge had described Gandhiji as a "British agent" and Netjai as a "Japanese agent" in his blog..

"I submit that Gandhi was objectively a British agent who did great harm to India,"  Katju had said in his blog on Tuesday.

"By constantly injecting religion into politics continuously for several decades, Gandhi furthered the British policy of divide and rule...he successfully diverted the freedom struggle from this revolutionary direction to a harmless nonsensical channel called Satyagrah," Katju said.

He also said in his blog that though  Netaji was a brave and honest person, he was used by the Japanese.

"In fact Bose was being used by the Japanese, and they would have bumped him off the moment his utility for them was over. He was no doubt a brave and personally honest man, but he had become an agent of Japanese fascism."

Katju, savvy with social networking sites stood in the centre of criticism for his alleged racist comment before the Delhi Assembly elections in January when he commented that BJP should have made Shazia Ilmi its Chief Ministerial candidate as she is "more beautiful" than Kiran Bedi.