Digvijay stirs controversy, attributes two-nation theory to Savarkar

Digvijay Singh, nowadays majorly popular for stirring controversies told on Thursday that it was freedom fighter Savarkar who proposed the two nation theory which led to the partition of India into two nations.

While speaking to media, Singh told on Thursday that Savarkar had the original idea of the two nation theory which was later adopted by Jinnah. Meanwhile, it is the country’s main Left Party that is backing Mr. Singh for such controversial statement. Mr. Singh apparently said this at a book launch function at the India Islamic Centre.

As per report of the sources, CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury agreed to the statements of Singh on Friday telling that the partition of India happened because of the twin radical strains of both Islam and Hindutva and though India became a secular republic, attempts are being made by some political associations to convert it into a Hindutva state.

Yechury, who is a Rajya Sabha MP and politburo member of Communist Party of India-Marxist, said that the ideologies propounded by Savarkar and freedom fighter B S Moonje reflected a violent strain of Hindutva.

CPI-M leader while speaking at a conference in New Delhi further alleged Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh for having a history of militant ideology and it was wrong to assume the violent strain of Hindutva as recent.

Yechury said there was an urgent need to change the mindset that terrorism is associated with people of only one community.

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