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New Delhi: With the Maharashtra Assembly elections drawing near, the BJP made a spirited attempt in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday to resurrect the Vinayak Damodar Savarkar issue.
No one from the ‘secular’ camp — Congress, Left, SP or RJD — made any attempt to engage BJP members as they stood up during Zero Hour demanding a clear government response to the proposal for setting up a Savarkar memorial at Marseilles in France.
Minister of state for parliamentary affairs V Narayanasamy first said the government had “taken note” of the issue and “would respond when necessary.” Later, when pressed by Leader of the Opposition L K Advani and his deputy Sushma Swaraj for a clearer reply, Narayansamy promised to “convey the feelings of members” to the concerned minister.
BJP’s Gopinath Munde, who hails from the same state as Savarkar — Maharashtra — raised the issue. He said the Mayor of Marseilles had written a letter indicating his willingness to establish the memorial. but the government had not responded. He pointed out that 100 years ago on this day Savarkar, who was being ferried as a prisoner, had jumped off a British ship to escape to the French coast. Savarkar swam across to the shore but was arrested in Marseilles. He was lodged in Cellular Jail in the Andamans.
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