The Congress party came down heavily on an advertisement issued by the Karnataka BJP in a section of the vernacular newspapers on Saturday that sought to hold the country’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, responsible for partition of India and termed it as a “blatant lie”.
Addressing a press conference at Kalale near Nanjangud along the route of the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra, Mr. Siddaramaiah said the BJP has become nervous about the unprecedented response the Congress padayatra had begun to draw and was resorting to such ‘misleading’ advertisements out of frustration.
Mr. Siddaramaiah said it was V.D. Savarkar, as the then President of Hindu Mahasabha, who had ruled out the possibility of India remaining as one nation because of the presence of Hindus as well as Muslims while delivering the presidential address of the Hindu Mahasabha in Ahmedabad in 1937. He said Hindus and Muslims cannot live together and said separation was inevitable, the Congress leader claimed.
