‘BJP may even hand over Bharat Ratna to Godse’: Owaisi slams RSS chief Savarkar’s remarks indian news

New Delhi: AIMIM Chairman Asaduddin Owaisi Criticizing the BJP-led government on Monday and RSS Sangh leader defends Hindu thinker VD Savarkar over comments by Bharat Ratna saying the party “will not hesitate to confer the country’s highest civil honour, even mahatma gandhiAssassin, Nathuram Godes. “Owaisi’s remarks came after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat It was recently said that awarding Savarkar with the Star of India would enhance the prestige of the award.Owaisi also referred to the JL Kapoor Committee report on Gandhi’s assassination, stating that Justice Kapoor had identified Savarkar as a conspirator. “A man involved in the assassination of Gandhi – you are looking for Bharat Ratna for him. Congratulations. One day, bjp It might even be awarded to Godse,” he said.Addressing a rally in Mahabub Nagar during the Telangana municipal elections, Owaisi highlighted the historical case of Maulvi Alauddin, the then Imam of Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, who was arrested for attacking a British garrison in 1857 during the first war of independence. He was sent to a prison cell in the Andaman Islands, popularly known as Kalapani, where he later died.The Hyderabad MP did not explicitly name Savarkar but said the RSS was pushing for Bharat Ratna to nominate a figure who had submitted six clemency petitions to the UK. He asked the Sangh who the first inmate of the cell jail was and claimed that it was Maulvi Alauddin and not a member of the National Volunteer Corps.