Attacks on Savarkar will reduce people’s sympathy over Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification: Shiv Sena (UBT)
The Hindu
The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on March 27 said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s attack on freedom fighter V.D. Savarkar will lead to ebbing of sympathy he has gained due to his disqualification as Lok Sabha MP.
The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on March 27 said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's attack on freedom fighter V.D. Savarkar will lead to ebbing of sympathy he has gained due to his disqualification as Lok Sabha MP.
An editorial in party mouthpiece ' Saamana' said the truth, which Mr. Gandhi is fighting for today, will not win by making defamatory statements against Savarkar.
At a rally on Sunday, Uddhav Thackeray said he considers Savarkar his "idol", and asked Rahul Gandhi to refrain from "insulting" him.
Mr. Thackeray said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance of three parties — Sena (UBT), Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) — was formed to protect democracy and it was necessary to work unitedly for it.
"By making defamatory statements against Savarkar, the sympathy gained by Rahul Gandhi will start ebbing. This will, for sure, put the Maharashtra Congress in a uncomfortable position," the editorial said.
Mr. Gandhi's remarks that he is not Savarkar to apologise will not affect the faith of the people in the Hindutva ideologue, it added.
Without naming Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the editorial said a dictator is always scared and that he first starts controlling the judiciary and parliament and destroys the opposition.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.