Rahul Gandhi says Savarkar helped British, Uddhav Thackeray disagrees

Mumbai, 17/11: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar helped the British, adding that he wrote a mercy petition to the then-rulers of India.

 

 

Addressing a press conference, Gandhi showed a paper to the media persons, claiming it was a letter written by Savarkar to the British.

 

“I will read the last line, which says ‘I beg to remain your most obedient servant’ and is signed V D Savarkar,” Gandhi said at the media interaction during his Bharat Jodo Yatra foot march which is in the last leg in Maharashtra.