Even as the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre is trying to own up Mahatma Gandhi, the Malayalam mouthpiece of the RSS has suggested that Nathuram Godse, instead of assassinating Gandhi, should have targeted Jawaharlal Nehru as he was responsible for Partition and never had any genuine attachment with the Father of the Nation.
The article in ‘Kesari’ has blamed Nehru and his ‘selfishness’ for major national tragedies of India like partition and Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination.
The editorial in question was written by B Gopalakrishnan, who was the BJP candidate from Kerala’s Chalakudy in the Lok Sabha elections.
The Congress condemned the attack on Nehru by the RSS and called it ‘disgusting and reprehensible’.
Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Friday said, “It is painful that RSS ideologue such as this, has spoken something disgusting and reprehensible. It is time that people understand the true face of the RSS and the BJP. It is even more unfortunate that backers of such people are in power.”