D Raja: After Savarkar, BJP may propose Bharat Ratna for Godse

Slamming BJP for mooting Bharat Ratna award for V D Savarkar, Communist Party of India general secretary D Raja on Tuesday said ruling party may even propose hour for Mahatma Gandhi's killer Nathuram Godse. election manifesto of Maharashtra BJP, released on Tuesday said party will ask NDA government at Centre to confer India's highest civilian award on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, popularly kwn as Veer Savarkar.

'This is part of BJP's nda'

"This is biggest irony of our times that while we are all celebrating birth centenary of Gandhiji, BJP is seeking Bharat Ratna to Savarkar, who was an accused in his assassination case," Raja told PTI. " day may t be far off for BJP to demand Bharat Ratna to Gandhiji's assassin Nathuram Godse. This is part of ir nda," CPI leer said. CPI is contesting 16 of 288 seats in October 21 Maharashtra Assembly elections, Raja said. "Our primary objective is to defeat BJP and it allies," he ded.

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'Will ask people to vote against BJP'

"We will support CPI(M) and or opposition parties in or seats and ask people to vote against BJP," he said. Raja said during Maharashtra poll campaign, BJP president Amit Shah and or senior leers of ruling party are speaking on issues like abrogation of Article 370 but keeping mum on core issues like farmers' distress, PMC Bank scam and job losses.

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