ROW OVER RAHUL’S COMMENTS ON VEER SAVARKAR, COMPLAINT FILED

AKOLA: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday continued to target late Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar, saying that he helped the British rulers and wrote a mercy petition to them out of fear.

His comments came even as Savarkar’s grandson on Thursday registered a complaint against the Congress leader.

Gandhi also dared the Maharashtra government to stop the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, which is currently passing through the state.

Addressing a press conference at Wadegaon in Akola district, Gandhi showed documents dating back to 1920 from the government records to media persons, claiming that they contained a letter written by Savarkar to the British.

“I will read the last line, which says ‘I beg to remain your most obedient servant’ and is signed V D Savarkar, which shows he helped the British,” Gandhi said at the media interaction during his Bharat Jodo Yatra, which is in currently in Maharashtra.