Mockery of justice: CPM chief slams Centre for highlighting Savarkar over Gandhi

Modi govt’s I-Day poster featuring Savarkar above Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Bose sparks political row

New Delhi: A Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Independence Day poster, featuring Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar placed above Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, and Subhas Chandra Bose, has sparked political controversy, with Opposition leaders accusing the government of glorifying a person once accused in Gandhi’s assassination.

Mockery of justice: CPM chief slams Centre for highlighting Savarkar over Gandhi

Communist Get together of India (Marxist) MP John Brittas John Brittas slammed the Centre after the official X account of the Ministry of Petroleum & Pure Fuel shared an Independence Day message that highlighted VD Savarkar over Mahatma Gandhi. Brittas known as it a “calculated act” undermining India’s secular structure. “It’s pertinent to notice that Savarkar was an accused in Gandhi’s assassination, although acquitted resulting from inadequate…