Fadnavis lashes out Congress for insulting Savarkar; says insult of national icons won’t be tolerated

Coming down heavily on Congress who insulted late Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar th, the Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said that insult of national icons will not be tolerated.

 

Fadnavis, who is also the Home Minister, also announced that action will be taken against the Congress’ Marathi mouthpiece “Shidori” for allegedly insulting Savarkar.

 

Congress MLA Prithviraj Chavan had demanded a motion of condemnation be admitted over Bhide’s remarks, which was rejected by Speaker Rahul Narwekar.

 

While speaking about the issue, Fadnavis said that a case has been registered against Bhide in Amaravati and that the police would take the voice samples of Bhide to conduct further probe.

 

 

 

“Bhide made an activist (of his outfit) read the controversial portion from a book ‘The Koran and the Fakir’. No video recording of that meeting but an audio clip is available. Hence police will take voice samples (of Bhide). The FIR is registered and Sambhaji Bhide has been sent a notice under CrPC 41A. Bhide has accepted the notice sent by Amravati police. An inquiry will be conducted accordingly,” Fadnavis told the House.

 

Bhide had allegedly made offensive statements about Mahatma Gandhi’s lineage during a speech last week.Following protests by the Congress and NCP, an FIR was registered by the Maharashtra police against Bhide, who is yet to be arrested.

 

“The way Bhide has faced action for his statements against Gandhiji, similarly action will also be taken against those who are repeatedly insulting Veer Savarkar. Action will be taken against Congress mouthpiece ‘Shidori’ for insulting Savarkar,” Fadnavis told the House.