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Congress leader and Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has sparked a major controversy by claiming that Vinayak Damodar Savarkar himself was a non-vegetarian and was not against cow slaughter, PTI reported on Thursday.
“Savarkar was a non-vegetarian and was not against cow slaughter. As a Brahmin, he ate meat and openly promoted meat-eating,” PTI quoted the book as saying in the Kannada edition of ‘Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India’ written by journalist Dhirendra. Karnataka minister was quoted as saying on the release of. Jha in Bengaluru.
“Though Savarkar was a modernist but his fundamental thinking was different. Some people said that he used to eat beef and he was openly promoting eating beef, so this thinking is different. But Gandhiji had great faith in Hindu religion. And there were conservatives at that.” But his actions were different because he was democratic in that way,” the minister said.
BJP hit back
Reacting to the controversial remarks of the Congress minister, senior BJP leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that Congress people do not know anything about Savarkar and only insult him.
“These people do not know anything about Savarkar. Insult him again and again. Savarkar has expressed his opinion on cows very well. He had said that cows have helped the farmer from his birth till his death. That is why cow has been given the status of God. Rahul Gandhi started the series of making such false statements on Savarkar and I think he is trying to take it further,” ANI quoted the Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister as saying.
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