Bharat Jodo Yatra Poster Features Savarkar; Congress Faces Flak From BJP

New Delhi: Though Congress has never considered VD Savarkar as one of the freedom fighters of the country, the party was faced with a blunder it had not anticipated during its Bharat Jodo Yatra.

As the party’s rally reached Kerala’s Ernakulum district, a poster of the yatra had a photo of VD Savarkar in a line-up with other freedom fighters has come to the fore.

The faux pas was noticed by Kerala’s Independent MLA PV Anwar, supported by the LDF. Anwar posted a video on social media platform Facebook, saying that the boards kept in Chengamanad as part of the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra has a photo of Savarkar. The workers later covered it with a picture of Mahatma Gandhi, he further wrote.

“When pointed out that VD Savarkar’s photo was on the Bharat Jodo Yatra’s poster in Aluva, the Muslim League’s narrative was that the poster is from Karnataka, where the BJP had installed the poster during the Independence Day celebrations. But the poster is from Kerala, not from Karnataka. The Congress has rectified its mistake by covering Savarkar’s image with that of Mahatma Gandhi’s,” the MLA wrote.

When the BJP, which considers Savarkar a hero, started slamming the grand old party, Soon, Congress clarified that it was a printing mistake.

“Veer Savarkar’s pictures adorn Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Ernakulum (near the airport). Although belated, good realisation for Rahul Gandhi, whose great grandfather Nehru, signed a mercy petition, pleaded the British to allow him to flee from Punjab’s Nabha jail in just 2 weeks,” Amit Malviya, the BJP’s I-T Cell chief, tweeted.

“Rahul ji, no matter how much you try history and the truth comes out Savarkar was Veer! Those who hide are the “kaayars”,” tweeted Shehzad Poonawalla.