Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar`s grandson Satyaki Savarkar on Wednesday filed a defamation case towards Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for his latest comments in London. Satyaki – who’s Veer Savarkar’s brother’s son, shared a purported video on Twitter in which Rahul Gandhi is visible addressing the public, and said, “Today, I actually have filed a grievance for crook defamation towards Rahul Gandhi for his fake allegations made on this speech towards my grand father overdue Shri. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.”
In the video, Gandhi is heard saying: “So if 5 humans beat up a Muslim guy and one character is experiencing happiness, then that is cowardice. If you need to combat then move combat single-handedly. But no, 5-6 humans in conjunction with Savarkar went to overcome the guy.” According to Satyaki, Gandhi’s statement is “an insult” because “the incident is imaginary”.
“Rahul Gandhi went to England closing month and in one of the gatherings commented that Veer Savarkar wrote in his ee-e book that he, alongside together along with his 5-6 friends, became beating a Muslim character and Veer Savarkar loved it. We were listening to loads from Rahul Gandhi and a number of his fans approximately so-known as petitions and pensions. Those have been certainly sustenance allowance and clemency petitions. We have reached the court,” he instructed the information company ANI.
Gandhi – who became currently disqualified from Lok Sabha after a conviction in every other defamation case for a ‘Modi surname’ statement – has been receiving flak from different leaders for focused on Savarkar and their ideologue.
A day after his disqualification, Gandhi had said, “My call isn’t Savarkar, my call is Gandhi and Gandhi does now no longer provide an apology to anyone.”
Meanwhile, closing 12 months at some point of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Congress chief had alleged that “Savarkar could write mercy petitions to be free of the Andaman mobile prison and additionally time-honored a pension from the British,” and claimed, “Savarkar had helped the British authorities at some point of the liberty struggle”.
