Mahatma gandhi grandson: Tushar Gandhi, the pardon of Mahatma Gandhi, said on Friday that he will neither withdraw his recent statements against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nor will they apologize for him. At the same time, both BJP and RSS have demanded that Tushar Gandhi be arrested for his comments.
Recently, during the unveiling of the statue of late Gandhian P Gopinathan Nair at Neyyatinkara, Thiruvananthapuram, Gandhi described BJP and RSS as “dangerous and insidious enemies” which have entered Kerala. He also called the RSS ‘poison’, after which BJP-RSS workers shouted slogans and stopped their car.
In an event in Aluva near Kochi, Gandhi said that once he said, he does not believe in taking back or apologizing for him. He said, “This incident has strengthened my resolve to expose traitors. This is a fight which is more important than the freedom struggle. Now we have a common enemy, that is the Sangh. They should be exposed. ”
Gandhi also said that he is worried that “descendants of my great -grandfather’s killers” will go to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and frank bullets on him as he is used to doing. “BJP retaliated on him and said that he is a person who was born as a descendant of Mahatma Gandhi, but trying to cash in on his grandfather’s name.
Former Union Minister of State and BJP leader V Muralitharan alleged that Tushar Gandhi has been trying to capitalize on Mahatma Gandhi’s name for economic benefits for many years. He said that on the basis of BJP’s complaint, Tushar Gandhi should be arrested for his statements.