Savarkar started receiving ₹60 a month stipend from the British government on 1 August 1929. He kept receiving it till 1937.
In this same period, Chandrashekhar Azad died fighting in February 1931.
Bhagat Singh was hanged in March 1931. The stipend kept coming.
Now here is the thing. Savarkar was not a Gandhian. He didn't believe in non-violence or quiet suffering. His entire claimed identity was built on armed, violent revolution.
He, as they Sanghis say, allegedly inspired a generation of young men to pick up guns against the British.
Those young men were killed by the British. And he kept on collecting his British paycheck.
And the title "Veer" that precedes his name in every BJP speech, every government textbook, every Hindutva WhatsApp forward.
Nobody gave him that title. No movement conferred it. No contemporary bestowed it, Like Bose called Gandhi ji Rashtrapita in 1944.
Savarkar gave it to himself.
Which is, honestly, the most honest summary of a Hindutva Icon.
A big thanks to the leaders of #INDIA!
I thank my brother, Hon’ble LOP Thiru. @RahulGandhi, for voicing our concerns against the #Delimitation bill that the BJP tried to rush through without consultation or consensus.
I thank respected Madam Tmt. Sonia Gandhi, Thiru. @Kharge, Hon'ble @PinarayiVijayan, Thiru. @ComradeDRaja, Hon'ble @Revanth_Anumula, Hon'ble @Siddaramaiah, Hon'ble @MamataOfficial, Thiru. @YadavAkhilesh, Thiru. @PawarSpeaks, Thiru. @LaluPrasadRJD, Hon'ble @HemantSorenJMM, Hon'ble @OmarAbdullah, Thiru. @ArvindKejriwal, Thiru. @UddhavThackeray, Thiru. @Naveen_Odisha, Thiru. @OfficeOfSSBadal, and all Opposition leaders.
They tried to divide us as North and South, to weaken and defeat us, and to redraw India’s political map for their own gain. But #INDIA stood together and defeated their design. This is only the beginning.
The blows the BJP will face in the coming days must be far more decisive. For that, we must continue to stand united as one Opposition.
🇮🇳 Behavior of Hindutva Boars:
An elderly Muslim street peddler, who somehow managed to afford one meal a day by selling fried rice and dal, was ruthlessly chased away by two boars of Hindutva rogues, and his foods were violently threw and spilled on the ground.