Satyaki Savarkar, grandnephew of Hindutva icon Vinayak Savarkar, has filed a complaint against Rahul Gandhi for alleged remarks in March 2023
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has claimed that Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Savarkar was a relative of Mahatma Gandhi’s killer, Nathuram Godse. Mr Gandhi has said this in an affidavit filed in a Pune court after Savarkar’s grandnephew sued the Congress leader for defamation. Mr Gandhi has accused Satyaki Savarkar of deliberately concealing his maternal lineage that links him to Godse.
Satyaki Savarkar said in his complaint against Mr Gandhi that he is a grandson of Savarkar’s brother Narayan Savarkar.
“As per information, mother of complainant Smt. Himani Ashok Savarkar was born on 31/03/1947 and died on 11/10/2015 at Pune. Late Smt. Himani Ashok Savarkar is daughter of Gopal Vinayak Godse, younger brother of Nathuram Vinayak Godse, who killed father of nation Mahatma Gandhi on 30/01/1948 and was hanged along with his accomplice Narayan Apte On 15/11/1949,” Mr Gandhi has said in his affidavit. Himani Savarkar, the affidavit says, was a Hindutva activist and married to Ashok Savarkar, nephew of Vinayak Savarkar.
The affidavit points out that Vinayak Savarkar was a co-accused in the Gandhi assassination case, but was acquitted. “The grandfather of complainant Gopal Godse was also convicted accused in murder of Mahatma Gandhi. These are the historical(ly) important facts and movements behind this case,” the affidavit says, adding that the complainant’s maternal family tree is important.
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