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Indira lauded Savarkar, called him a 'remarkable son' of India: BJP leader Ram Madhav

Indira lauded Savarkar, called him a 'remarkable son' of India: BJP leader Ram Madhav

| @indiablooms | 17 Dec 2019, 10:31 am

New Delhi, Dec 17 (UNI) Days after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi triggered a major row with his comment - "My name is not Savarkar" on being asked to apologise for his 'Rape in India' remarks, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav on Tuesday released a letter by former PM Indira Gandhi where she has praised the role played by Veer Savarkar in the freedom struggle.

"Indira Gandhi's message on Savarkar's birth centenary," wrote Madhav attaching a copy of the original letter dated May 20, 1980.

In her letter to Pandit Bakhle, the then Secretary of the Swatantrayaveer Savarkar Rashtriya Smarak, the late Prime Minister is said to have written - "I wish success to the plans to celebrate the birth centenary of this remarkable son of India".

Indira Gandhi also recorded "Savarkar's daring defiance of the British government".

Rahul Gandhi's remarks on Savarkar during a Delhi rally also provoked strong reactions from Shiv Sena, the new found Congress ally in Maharashtra. 

Image: UNI

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