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CPI(M) deplores move to install Savarkar statue
NEW DELHI
DEC. 7.
Flaying the reported move of the Government to install a statue of V.D. Savarkar in Parliament, the CPI (M) said today that it was ``deplorable'' that the statue of a person, who had ``sowed the seeds of communalism in the country", was being erected.
``To erect Savarkar's statue, who had propounded the two-nation theory which led to the partition of the country and sowed the seeds of communalism, is deplorable," the CPI (M) leader and politburo member, Sitaram Yechury, said here.
Savarkar had also ``apologised to the British Government to get him out of the cellular jail'', he said, after addressing a seminar on the ``threat of communalism to Indian democracy''. The genesis of the two-nation theory originated from Savarkar, much before the Muslim League's demand.
Mr. Yechury said that the BJP was no longer playing the religious card, as it was not reaping any political benefits from them.
``Now they are trying to raise the issues of terrorism and nationalism and putting the Ayodhya and Godhra issues on the backburner because the issues are no longer beneficial for them in the electoral front.''
The seminar was attended among others by R.K. Jain, president, Supreme Court Bar Association, and D.K. Aggarwal, president, All India Law Union.
PTI
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