"What Did Gandhi Do Anyway?": Right Wing Man On Sadhu Who Abused Mahatma
NDTV
"What did Gandhi do anyway? If Independence could have been achieved just by turning a spinning wheel, everyone would have done that. The sacrifice of Bhagat Singh is what brought Independence. No one got Independence by turning a charkha," said Sandeep Kushwaha of the local Bajrang Sena.
Members of right-wing groups demanded the release of Kalicharan Maharaj, a religious leader from Maharashtra who is in jail in Chhattisgarh for abusing Mahatma Gandhi and glorifying his killer Nathuram Godse. A leader of the Bajrang Sena asserted that Kalicharan did nothing wrong and only said what "everyone knows".
"He (Kalicharan Maharaj) only said what is true. Everyone knows that. What did Gandhi do anyway? If Independence could have been achieved just by turning a spinning wheel, everyone would have done that. The sacrifice of Bhagat Singh is what brought Independence. No one got Independence by turning a charkha," said Sandeep Kushwaha of the local Bajrang Sena unit.
The right-wing members had gone to submit a memorandum at the Commissioner's office.
Addressed to President of India Ram Nath Kovind and Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra, the memorandum demanded the registration of a sedition case against Congress's Digvijaya Singh and Manishankar Iyyer and Asaduddin Owaisi of AIMIM and the release of Kalicharan.
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