Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Hegde's 'Gandhi' remark: ‘Ye Ravan ki aulad hain’

New Delhi, February 4

The controversial remarks made by BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde on Mahatma Gandhi rocked Lok Sabha on Tuesday, with Congress members shouting slogans and walking out of the House after accusing the ruling party of doing “Godse politics”.

Immediately after the House convened at noon after the proceedings were adjourned following uproar by Opposition members over Hegde’s remarks, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said the BJP leader has “insulted” Mahatma Gandhi, who is respected by people across the globe.

“Mahatma Gandhi, who was the paragon of peace, whom the world worshipped, the Mahatma Gandhi who is called the father the nation. The Mahatma Gandhi who isn’t considered just a leader in India but of the world, that Mahatma Gandhi has been insulted.  They’ve called his Satyagraha a drama. These (BJP) people are sons of Ravan. They’re insulting a devotee of Ram,” Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, said in the House.

At an event in Bengaluru recently, Hegdge had said that freedom fighters, who did not sacrifice anything, made the country believe that it attained Independence through ‘Upavas Satyagrah’, Gandhi’s preferred mode of agitation, and became Mahapurush (great person).

The former MP had said, “There were two types of freedom fighters, one which believed in Shastra (arms) and another in Shaastra (intellectual motivators). — PTI