The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday raised questions at the BJP and asked them to break their silence on “whether they have any secret deal with extreme Right wing organisations like the Hindu Mahasabha for installation of busts of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin, Nathuram Godse in Delhi and other main cities of the country”.
The party added, “Condemnable statements from such dangerous organisations are increasing everyday and the BJP must reveal whether it had made any such promise before the lok Sabha elections to get the support of these groups. It is shocking that the Hindu Mahasabha is openly displaying the bust of the assassin of the Father of the Nation at its office in Central Delhi and a blind eye is being deliberately turned to such a dangerous development.”
The party questioned the BJP on whether it supports the Hindu Mahasabha’s assessment that Nathuram Godse was a nationalist. A statement issued by the party said, “If the BJP does not agree with this assessment, why is the Union Home Ministry not taking any action against the organisation openly praising and planning to felicitate the assassin of Father of the NationIJ This same organisation claims to have worked for the BJP during the lok Sabha elections. The Delhi Police should not be silent when an organisation is publicly displaying and sending photographs of the bust of Nathuram Godse’s bust from its Mandir Marg office.”
Furthering this matter, AAP leaders said they will “peacefully protest any attempt to praise the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi” as the party views it as a deliberate attempt to promote “extremely intolerant views, which will harm the country’s image across the globe”.