#Bharat Ratna Veer Savarkar Controversy

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Karnataka Names Bengaluru Yelahanka Flyover After Veer Savarkar, Congress, JDS Oppose Move

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The Congress questioned Veer Savarkar’s contribution to Karnataka. (File)

Bengaluru:

The Congress and JD(S) in Karnataka have opposed the move to name a flyover in the city after freedom fighter and Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar, and termed it as an insult to freedom fighters of the state.

The inauguration of 400 metre long flyover, which according to sources has been constructed at a cost of Rs 34 core, was scheduled for today but has now been postponed due to fears of social distancing violations. It was to be inaugurated by Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa today, which happens to be Veer Savarkar’s birthday.

Leader of Opposition and Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah termed the move to name the flyover after Veer Savarkar an insult to freedom fighters from Karnataka’s soil and urged Mr Yediyurappa to drop it and instead name it after a freedom fighter from the state.

In a tweet, he said: “The hasty decision to name Yelahanka flyover after Savarkar is an evidence to say that he administration is not run by an elected government, but by those behind the screen. Chief Minister are you seeking opposition cooperation for such anti-people decisions?”

Another former Chief Minister and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy said the decision was an insult to those who fought for the prosperity of the state and it was not right on the part of the government to do so.

“There are several eminent personalities who fought for the development and welfare of the state both before and after independence, flyover could have been named after them. Have other states named things after freedom fighters from the state? I urge the state government on behalf of the people to step back from the decision,” he tweeted.

According to sources, the decision to name the flyover at Yelahanka after Veer Savarkar was taken at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (city civic body) council meeting on February 29.

Defending the move, Yelahanka MLA SR Vishwanath, who is also the political secretary to Chief Minister said, there was nothing wrong in naming the flyover after a freedom fighter who was jailed and suffered punishment at Kala Pani (erstwhile Andaman jail) punishment for the sake of the country.

He said legally as per rules BBMP council has approved it and all formalities have been completed and only after that the naming has been planned.

Mr Vishwanath termed the attempt to create controversy over naming the flyover after Savarkar as insult to freedom fighters, adding that several projects and bridges in his constituency have been named after eminent personalities of the state and the county and this was one such move.

The Congress said naming of the bridge after Veer Savarkar was taken, despite opposition, and questioned Savarkar’s contribution to Karnataka and Bengaluru.

The Congress and other opposition parties had earlier opposed the move to confer Bharat Ratna on Veer Savarkar, posthumously.

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AIMIM President Owaisi: If you want to give Bharat Ratna, then give it to Sukhdev, Rajguru, Bhagat Singh

Commenting on the recent controversy over whether Veer Savarkar should be awarded Bharat Ratna, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday stated that the honor should be instead bestowed upon the likes of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev.

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Veer Savarkar birth anniversary: Legacy of man who coined term 'Hinduvta' repeatedly dragged into political discourse

http://tinyurl.com/y3f8wxvg In the run-up to the Lok Sabha election 2019, that concluded with a landslide victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its political and ideological allies, the campaigns run by top leaders of the NDA alliance and the Opposition often targeted the rival camp with painting the conduct of its founding fathers in a less-than-honourable light. One of the debates that were dragged back into political discourse was that around the “actual” braveness of Vinayak ‘Veer’ Damodar Savarkar. Savarkar was the founder of the ‘Hindutva’ ideology, which gained recognition in the period before India’s Independence. Leaders of the Congress-led Opposition have often said that Savarkar — who is an ideological icon for the BJP and RSS — had apologised to the British for speaking out against the colonial rulers and asked to be released from jail. On Monday, Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel raked up the controversial “two-state theory” theory that led to the formation of India and Pakistan, saying that it was Savarkar who had first proposed the idea and founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah “implemented” it. File images of of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi. PTI “Savarkar had put forward the proposal of dividing the country into two parts on religious grounds and Jinnah had implemented it. This is a historical fact and no one can deny it.” Speaking further about the demand of a Bharat Ratna for Savarkar, Baghel said, “He had fought for the Independence of the country and was put in Andaman and Nicobar jail. Not just once but he apologised repeatedly to Britishers and after coming out of jail he stayed away from the fight for the country’s Independence. He had thought of two countries, this is also historically true.” In November 2018, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has kept a portrait of Veer Savarkar in Parliament… When the British ruled this country, when all Congress leaders were in prison, Savarkar wrote a letter to the British. He was not veer (gallant),” at a gathering. The Congress president had also alleged that Savarkar had written that he would do anything for the British. “I apologise to you. I will not indulge in any political activities. Release me from prison. With folded hands, I will touch your (British) feet. Please release me from prison,” Rahul had claimed Savarkar had written in the purported letter, adding that this was while Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, BR Ambedkar, and Sardar Patel were fighting for India’s freedom. Savarkar’s true legacy is a bone of contention between factions that pledge alliance to the ‘Hindutva’ ideology, and those who oppose it. The BJP and the RSS, while distancing themselves from Savarkar’s unproved links with Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse, continue to adhere to the principles of nationalism and Hindutva as introduced by him. According to some reports, the murders and one attempted murder of three British officials between 1901 and 1931, are used as examples of Savarkar’s “revolutionary zeal to violently uproot the British rule, unmindful of the consequences”. According to an article in The Hindu titled ‘How Savarkar Escaped the Gallows‘, author AG Noorani argues that Savarkar not only knew the conspirators of Mahatma Gandhi’s murder but was also close to them. “It is noteworthy here that Savarkar was also a co-accused in Gandhi’s assassination but was later acquitted because a witness’ account could not be independently corroborated,” a Firstpost report notes. However, analysts say that Savarkar’s acquittal in Gandhi’s murder case furthers the “Savarkar the brave” image. On the other hand, critics of Savarkar claim that he wrote multiple apologies to the British, “in bargain for his own freedom, not the country’s”. “He manipulated his followers to assassinate British officials, yet took care to conceal his links to the crimes he conceived. He did not hesitate to betray his acolytes, as he did Nathuram Godse, the man who assassinated Gandhi,” Scroll reported. Earlier in May, the newly-elected Congress government in Rajasthan announced that it would ‘correct’ the narrative around Savarkar, by changing his biography in the state’s History textbooks. State Education Minister Govind Dotasra, making the announcement, said that the biography would be changed to portray facts “in the right manner”. Dotasra also criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party for glorifying Savarkar for his methods and ideologies. While the Congress government said that it was only reversing the changes that were introduced by the previous Vasundhara Raje-led government, the BJP, in Opposition in the state, claimed that the state government did not want to promote the country’s history, reported Firstpost. On Monday, former Rajasthan education minister Vasudev Devnani flayed the Congress government for affixing “son of Portugal” to Savarkar’s revised description in Class X social science textbooks, which was a modification made according to the findings of the government-appointed committee. Now, in the textbooks it is mentioned that Savarkar had described himself as “son of Portugal” when seeking clemency from the British government in 1910-11. Some analysts, however, argue that the criticism levelled against Savarkar misses the nuance of his ideology, while also noting that he was on uncertain ground when defining ‘Hindutva’. “But Savarkar entered contentious territory while defining Hindutva. To him, Hindutva, which helped forge a uniform national identity, was predicated on individuals locating both their pitrabhu (fatherland) and punyabhu (holy land) within the territorial confines of the Indian state. This definition created a dilemma for India citizens of religious denominations that originated outside India—primarily Islam and Christianity,” Livemint reported. With inputs from agencies Your guide to the latest seat tally, live updates, analysis and list of winners for Lok Sabha Elections 2019 on firstpost.com/elections. 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