Kolkata: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a ‘Hindu fanatic who was fascinated by the two-nation concept even earlier than Jinnah raised it,’ Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose informed ThePrint. Bose’s remarks have been in response to claims made within the teaser of actor Randeep Hooda-starrer Swatantra Veer Savarkar.
Hooda, who performs the lead function within the biopic which additionally marks his directorial debut, whereas unveiling its teaser on 28 Could, described Savarkar because the “man who was the inspiration behind revolutionaries like Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh, and Khudiram Bose”.
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Dismissing such claims, Chandra Bose stated Netaji and Savarkar have been ideologically diametrically reverse. “Savarkar has his personal place in historical past, he was a Hindu fanatic. Whereas Jinnah raised the two-nation concept on the Lahore Convention, Savarkar was already fascinated by it within the 30s. It feels that the movie is politically motivated and attempting to color a special image of Savarkar,” he stated.
He additionally informed ThePrint that Netaji was a secular chief who believed in inclusivity. “He (Netaji) needed a united India together with the Hindus, the Muslims, the Sikhs, the Jains and all of the communities,” Chandra Bose stated, including that Netaji was impressed by Sarat Chandra Bose and Swami Vivekananda.
An economics graduate from London’s Hendrix Faculty, Chandra Bose stop the TATA group to arrange his personal consultancy enterprise in Kolkata. In 2016, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP), which was seen as a giant increase for the social gathering in West Bengal owing to Netaji’s reputation within the state for his function within the freedom battle.
Chandra Bose was pitted by the BJP towards Mamata Banerjee within the 2016 Bengal election from Bhabanipur, however misplaced to her. He contested once more in 2019 from Dakshin Kolkata parliamentary constituency however misplaced to Mala Roy of the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Within the 2021 meeting polls, Chandra Bose was hopeful of getting a ticket from the BJP for Rashbehari constituency, however that didn’t materialise. He then resigned as state vice- president of the BJP after his demand to arrange an Azad Hind Morcha throughout the social gathering was ignored and his recommendations on modification of the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) guidelines weren’t considered. He, nevertheless, continues to retain the first membership of the the BJP.
ThePrint reached actor Randeep Hooda through textual content for remark, however had not acquired a response by the point of publication. This report will probably be up to date if and when a response is acquired.
Nonetheless, Chandra Bose has now discovered a supporter within the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC).
“In his guide ‘Indian battle’, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose put Jinnah and Savarkar in the identical bracket. Each have been communal and each have been asking for the Partition of India alongside the Hindu-Muslim divide. The British beloved them each. Netaji despised them each,” TMC state vice-president Jay Prakash Majumdar informed ThePrint,
In response to Netaji’s daughter Anita Bose Pfaff, Netaji was a religious Hindu. “Maybe the one factor in frequent between Netaji and Savarkar was Hinduism. My father didn’t imagine in divide and rule. He all the time had a imaginative and prescient for a united India,” she stated.
ThePrint additionally spoke to Subrata Roy, the grandnephew of martyr Khudiram Bose, who stated he had by no means come throughout archival materials to counsel any hyperlinks between Savarkar’s ideology and that of Khudiram Bose.
In response to historian Purabi Roy, there isn’t any revealed materials to counsel a hyperlink between Savarkar and Netaji.
“Savarkar, when he left for London, was accompanied by Sarojini Naidu’s elder brother Virendranath Chattopadhyay. Savarkar was very near Karl Marx’s grandson. To ascertain a hyperlink with Netaji, one should see archival materials from the Soviet facet and unravel the reality,” she informed ThePrint.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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