Savarkar’s vision of new India being realized by PM Narendra Modi: Sudhanshu Trivedi

NAGPUR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is realizing the dream of new India that was visualized by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, said BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi on Tuesday.
Addressing a rally at Shankar Nagar Square here at the conclusion of ‘Savarkar Gaurav Yatra’, the Rajya Sabha MP said the country achieved independence after the British realised there was growing unrest among Indians in their army, who were inspired by Savarkar.
Accompanied by Union minister Nitin Gadkari and deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Trivedi launched a scathing attack on former MP Rahul Gandhi for insulting the noted freedom fighter.
“In 1920, Mahatma Gandhi wrote in his Young India newspaper that when he met Savarkar in London, he realized that the latter knew the British in a much better way. He wrote that Savarkar loved the country. If today’s Gandhi cannot realise Savarkar’s contribution, we cannot help,” he said.
Trivedi said Rahul should first read the Mahatma and then make comments on freedom fighters. “He still calls himself a youth at 50 years. He always looks sad and angry. He is a perpetually frustrated and agitated man. Show me even a single national level leader from Congress who was killed by British bullets, or was hanged by them, or sent to Andaman. Except Lala Lajpat Rai, none of their leaders were injured at the hands of the British.”
Flaying Gandhi for insulting India on foreign soil, the BJP spokesperson said he indulged in arrogance under the garb of Satyagrah. “Even in court, Gandhi does not go like a common man, but takes his entire army of followers to pressurise the judiciary. Even when his grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru was kept in jail in 1923, his father Motilal met the then viceroy and ensured all facilities for him. Though Nehru was awarded a two-year jail term, the jail administrator pardoned him within a day.”
Calling Savarkar a visionary, Trivedi said he was flayed for exhorting the youths at that time to join the British Army during his Kanpur speech after the Second World War.
“He knew that the Britishers would provide them rifles and other weaponry. Between 1931 and 1947, except Bharat Chhodo in 1942, there was no big protest. Still, the British decided to free India as they had realized resentment among the Indian soldiers. British PM Clement Attlee in 1946 had made a statement in Parliament that the situation in India was unlike 1920, 1940 or 1942, and they may rebel. These were the same soldiers who were inspired by Savarkar,” he said.