Pune: Two Congressmen booked for vandalising Savarkar Statue

On 18th November 2022, Pune police booked two Congress staff for vandalising Veer Savarkar’s statue close to Sarasbaug within the Swargate space of town. Pune police additionally detained 15 BJP staff for protesting towards Rahul Gandhi on the Congress workplace within the metropolis.

The senior inspector Ashok Indulkar of the Swargate police station stated that Congress staff have been booked beneath sections 188, 504, and 153 of the Indian Penal Code for vandalising Savarkar’s statue. These staff raised a banner studying “Maafiveer (mercy seeker) Savarkar” close to the Savarkar statue in Sarasbaug.

It was discovered that the flex was put in by the Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress. It was planted round 1.30 pm on Thursday. It contained paperwork cited by Rahul Gandhi whereas his broadsides towards the liberty fighter.

The politics within the state appears to be heating up as Rahul Gandhi educated weapons at Veer Savarkar throughout his Bharat Jodo Yatra which reached the Akola district of Maharashtra this week. Many followers of Savarkar demonstrated towards the Gandhi scion for his remarks on Savarkar.

In an effort to protest Rahul Gandhi’s feedback on late Hindutva thinker V D Savarkar, a lot of BJP demonstrators stormed the Congress’s workplace in Pune on Friday. They tried to blacken footage of the social gathering chief. The demonstrators shouted anti-Rahul Gandhi slogans and tacked up posters studying “Mafiveer (mercy seeker) Jawaharlal Nehru” on the Congress Bhavan partitions, in response to a police officer within the Shivajinagar police station. Inspector Arvind Mane stated, “We detained 10 to 15 workers from the premises of Congress Bhavan.”

The Congress scion had gone on a vitriolic tirade towards Veer Savarkar through the Maharashtra leg of his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra.’ On Tuesday (November 15), Rahul Gandhi claimed that the liberty fighter took a pension from the British authorities to work towards the Indian National Congress (INC).

Again on Thursday (November 17), he reiterated that Veer Savarkar helped the British authorities and wrote mercy petitions “out of fear”. Rahul Gandhi additionally accused the Indian freedom fighter of betraying the likes of Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, and Mahatma Gandhi.