Reportedly Prime Minister narendra modi lauded Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar while addressing a rally in Maharashtra’s Akola. Meanwhile his comment came a day after the BJP in its Maharashtra election manifesto called for awarding India’s highest civilian honor Bharat Ratna to Savarkar. Furthermore he said, "It is due to Savarkar's “sanskar” (values) that we put nationalism as the basis for nation-building and the people who are angry at our nullifying article 370, they are the same people who used to abuse and denigrate Veer Savarkar and who denied him a Bharat Ratna till today".
Furthermore modi called the opposition parties "shameless", as he attacked them for objecting to BJP leaders bringing up the issue of abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir during campaigning for the Maharashtra Assembly polls and he also attacked NCP leader praful patel for his alleged links with Mumbai’s underworld.
Reportedly on the subject of terror attacks, modi said that after bomb blasts in the state, the terrorists behind them would flee to enemy countries. He added "Now relationships between some of the leaders [who allowed the terrorists to run away] and the terrorists is unraveling and those who did business with the people that painted Maharashtra in its own blood, we are finding out about them”.
