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Ashutosh's Mahatma Gandhi comment: Congress holds protest at Rajghat

Ashutosh's Mahatma Gandhi comment: Congress holds protest at Rajghat

| | 05 Sep 2016, 12:43 pm
New Delhi, Sept 5 (IBNS): Condemning Aam Aadmi Party leader Ashutosh over his alleged column, where he equated Mahatma Gandhi with tainted AAP minister Sandeep Kumar, top Congress leaders on Monday held a protest in the national capital.

In his column, written for a media house, Ashutosh wrote, "History is also witness to the fact that top leaders of the Congress in 1910s were worried about Gandhiji's relationship with Sarla Chaudhary, who was distantly related to Rabindra Nath Tagore."

Asutosh said  "Gandhiji had confessed that Sarla was his spiritual wife. Kasturba Gandhi was very disturbed. C Rajagopalchari and other senior leaders of the party had to intervene. They persuaded, pressured, cajoled Gandhiji to leave Sarla. Gandhiji in his later days slept naked with his two nieces to experiment with celibacy. Pandit Nehru had told him not to do so as the country would rise against him but Gandhiji did not budge."

Asutosh's  column was met with severe criticisms, as his effigies were burnt in Gujarat by people who took offence.

Sandeep Kumar, an AAP minister, was earlier removed from his office and later suspended from the party, following a sex scandal which involved him.

Ashutosh also did not find favour from both his colleagues and the party as they distanced themselves from his comment.

 

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