A true Hindutvavadi would have shot Jinnah and not Mahatma Gandhi, says Sanjay Raut
The Hindu
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A true “Hindutvavadi” would have shot Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah and not Mahatma Gandhi, said Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 74th death anniversary or Martyrs’ Day.
Mr. Raut was responding to a tweet by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in which the latter had said a Hindutvavadi shot Mahatma Gandhi dead but that “Bapu is still alive today wherever the truth prevails”.
“The demand for Pakistan was Jinnah’s… he was responsible for the violence that followed Partition…if the killers [Godse and others in the conspiracy to kill Mahatma Gandhi] were real men, they would have shot him [Jinnah] and not Gandhi. That would have been an act of patriotism. But by shooting Gandhiji, the world was saddened, and still mourns his assassination [on October 30, 1948],” said Mr. Raut.