RSS, BJP seek arrest of Tushar Gandhi over his comments

Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, on Friday said that he will neither retract his recent statements against Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its political arm Bharatiya Janata Party BJP) nor will he apologise for them, while the two saffron outfits sought his arrest.

- AM Abdussalam

On Friday, speaking at an event in Aluva near Kochi, Gandhi said that once he said ‘those things’, he does not believe in retracting them or apologizing for them.

“What this incident has done is strengthen my resolve to continue to expose the traitors. This is a fight, which is even more essential than the freedom fight. We have a common enemy now, the Sangh. They must be exposed,” he said. He also said that he was worried that ‘the descendants of my great grandfather's murderers’ will go to Mahatma Gandhi's statue and fire bullets at it ‘as they are habituated to do’.