Aaditya Thackeray to BJP, INDIA ally Cong: 'Stop invoking Savarkar, Nehru for politics'
Hindustan TimesShiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said that the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party should stop blaming Jawaharlal Nehru or Vinayak Damodar Savarkar for the sake of their politics, and instead talk about future. Thackeray was responding to question about Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi citing Savarkar's purported criticism of the Constitution in the House earlier in the day. Later, Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde invoked a letter written by former prime minister Indira Gandhi praising V D Savarkar, triggering heated exchanges in the Lok Sabha between the treasury benches and Congress members. The BJP has often tried to embarrass the Sena by citing its INDIA bloc ally Congress and Rahul Gandhi's criticism of Savarkar, a Hindutva icon whom the Uddhav Thackeray-led party reveres.