In a no-holds-barred assault on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for his comment that India received “true independence” after the Ram Temple in Ayodhya was consecrated, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi immediately mentioned the remark amounted to “treason” and that Mr Bhagwat can be arrested and tried if he was in every other nation.
Mr Gandhi was addressing an occasion to mark the inauguration of the brand new Congress headquarters in Delhi. “We’re getting a brand new headquarters at a really specific time. I believe it is fairly symbolic that yesterday, the chief of the RSS mentioned that India by no means achieved Independence in 1947. He mentioned true Independence in India was achieved when the Ram Mandir was constructed. He says that the Structure was not the image of our freedom.”
Mohan Bhagwat’s audacious remark that India did not acquire true independence in 1947 is an insult to our freedom fighters, each single Indian citizen and an assault on our Structure. pic.twitter.com/6sMhdxn3xA
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) January 15, 2025
“Mohan Bhagwat has the audacity to tell the nation each two or three days what he thinks in regards to the Independence motion, what he thinks in regards to the Structure. What he has mentioned yesterday is treason as a result of it’s stating that the Structure is invalid, it’s stating that all the things (carried out) to struggle in opposition to the British was invalid and he has the audacity to say this publicly,” Mr Gandhi mentioned, including, “in every other nation, he can be arrested and tried”.
“To say that India didn’t get Independence in 1947 is an insult to each single Indian and it is about time we cease listening to this nonsense that these individuals suppose they will simply preserve parroting out and shouting and screaming,” the Chief of the Opposition in Lok Sabha mentioned.
Mr Bhagwat was in Indore on Monday to current the Nationwide Devi Ahilya award to Champat Rai, basic secretary of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Belief. Addressing a gathering there, he mentioned the day of the consecration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya must be celebrated as “Pratishtha Dwadashi” because it marks the “true independence” of Bharat. “India, which confronted enemy assaults for hundreds of years, witnessed its true independence that day. We had independence, however it had not been established. India received political independence on August 15, 1947, we additionally introduced a Structure however the nation didn’t run in its spirit. How can we settle for that desires have been fulfilled and ache alleviated? Our swa (self) is Ram, Krishna and Shiva. Do they belong solely to those that worship them? No. Ram connects individuals from north to south, Krishna from east to west and Shiva is in each particle of Bharat,” he mentioned.