In Savarkar row, Fadnavis quotes Indira Gandhi to attack Rahul Gandhi
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In Savarkar row, Fadnavis quotes Indira Gandhi to attack Rahul Gandhi

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Unfazed by the controversy over his recent statement, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had on Thursday targeted late Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar again. "Now just read what former Prime Minister of India Mrs. Indira Gandhi had said about Swatantryaveer Savarkar ji.Here she calls Veer Savarkar ji the pillar of the freedom movement and the forever remembered son of India." He shared a letter written by Mahatma Gandhi and asked Gandhi if the last sentences of the letters were still the same from when Rahul Gandhi quoted it saying that ‘Savarkar had helped the British.’ “Yesterday you asked me to read the last lines of a letter, Come on, now let me read some documents to you today. Fadnavis further quoted Congress leader and former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, who according to the deputy CM's statement “says that Swatantryaveer Savarkar was an intense nationalist.

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