Hailing Veer Savarkar as a staunch nationalist and India's first military strategist in the 20th century, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said it was on Mahatma Gandhi's request that he wrote mercy petitions to the British. After this statement by Rajnath, political fire has been ignited once again over the Veer Savarkar. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has given a statement that Savarkar's mercy petition was given to the British at the behest of Mahatma Gandhi. According to Rajnath, he has filed a mercy petition under the options available in the law, which cannot be called an apology. On the other hand, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has also said that Savarkar, who talks about Hindutva today, has been maligned, Swami Dayanand, Vivekananda, Yogi Arvind will be targeted in the future. After these statements on Savarkar, the leaders of the opposition have attacked the government and the Sangh. After all, why Savarkar, the assassin of Gandhiji, has been included in the category of great men? Watch what poli