Jairam Ramesh, Owaisi attack Rajnath Singh for his 'Gandhi-Savarkar comment'
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Opposition leaders allege the Defence Minister of “trying to rewrite history”
A day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's remark that it was on Mahatma Gandhi's request that Veer Savarkar wrote mercy petitions, some opposition leaders attacked the Minister on Wednesday, alleging that he was "trying to rewrite history".
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi shared on Twitter a letter by Gandhi on January 25, 1920 to Savarkar's brother regarding a case, and accused the Union Minister of giving a "twist" to what Gandhi wrote.
The AIMIM leader also said the first petition Savarkar wrote was in 1911, just six months after getting to prison and Gandhi was then in South Africa. Savarkar wrote again in 1913/14 and Gandhi's advice is from 1920, he added.
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