'Savarkar Told Lies About Gandhi, Begged British for Favours, Didn't Want Democracy': Arun Shourie
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In an interview to discuss his forthcoming book on Veer Savarkar, The New Icon: Savarkar and the Facts, Arun Shourie reveals details about Savarkar that may shock his followers and surprise his critics. Shourie’s book establishes that Savarkar was not a cow-worshiper and wasn’t against beef-eating. He lied about Subhas Chandra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi, claiming that he had advised the former to escape from India, form the Indian National Army and declare complete independence for Hindustan and asserting that “Gandhi ji and myself lived together as friends” in London in 1908, when Gandhi wasn’t even in the city at that time.
The book says Savarkar also “begged” Lord Linlithgow, the British Viceroy, to induct the Hindu Mahasabha into the Viceroy’s Executive Council and the War Council and was happy to accept Dominion Status at a time when Congress was demanding complete independence.
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