BJP MP Kushwaha hits out at Congress for berating VD Sawarkar

Ballia(UP): BJP on Friday hit back at Congress for running down BJP-RSS ideologue V D Savarkar, saying the day is not too far when even Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel would “appear anti-national” to the opposition party. BJP MP Ravindra Kushwaha accused Congress of openly siding with anti-national elements. Yaqoob Memon and Afzal Guru had become Congress party’s “ideals”, while it considered Savarkar, who played an important role in freedom struggle, as anti-national, he alleged. “If Savarkar was a traitor, why did the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi issue a commemorative stamp while praising Sarvarkar,” the Lok Sabha member from Salempur constituency in Uttar Pradesh said. [caption id=“attachment_2695274” align=“alignleft” width=“435”] Representational image.[/caption] “The day is not too far when Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel will appear to them (Congress) as anti-national,” he said He alleged that Congress leaders were “desperate and frustrated” due to the work done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and were unable to differentiate between “pro and anti-national elements”. Congress had utilised the death anniversary of Bhagat Singh to run down Savarkar by juxtaposing the famous revolutionary against the BJP-RSS ideologue. “Bhagat Singh dared the British Raj to send the executioners. BJP-RSS ideologue Savarkar begged for his own release” “Bhagat Singh waged war for Freedom from British Raj, V D Savarkar begged for mercy, to be a slave in British Raj,” the party had said in a series of tweets. To a query regarding BJP’s preparations for 2017 UP Assembly elections, Kushwaha claimed there was a wave in favour of his party. He said Modi was the biggest face of the party, which would disclose its election strategy at the right time. PTI