Published 15:59 IST, September 19th 2019

Lata Mangeshkar tweets about the bond her family shared with Savarkar

Bharat Ratna Shrimati Lata Mangeshkar on Twitter reminisced about the close relationship, her family and her shared with the revolutionary Veer Savarkar.

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Bharat Ratna Shrimati Lata Mangeshkar took to Twitter on Thursday and in a post, she reminisced about close relationship, her family and her shared with revolutionary Veer Savarkar, she furr wrote that it is because of this close relationship that Savarkar wrote play 'Sanyasta Khag' for her far’s company. play was first showcased on September 18, 1931. It is through this play that song ‘Shat Janma Shodhitana’ became a crowd favourite, she ded.

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Bharat Ratna Shrimati Lata Mangeshkar's Tweet:

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Veer Savarkar has been in news recently with Uddhav Thackeray sparking off controversy after stating that he would've 'beaten' Congress leer Mani Shankar Aiyar with a 'shoe' over his infamous 2018 remark on Veer Savarkar. Shiv Sena chief speaking on sidelines of launch of a biography titled 'Savarkar: Echoes From A Forgotten Past', also stated that Pakistan would t have been formed if Savarkar was Prime Minister of country. Back in 2018, Congress leer Mani Shankar Aiyar claimed that Savarkar coined term 'Hindutva'. Moreover, he ded that it was Savarkar, who was first one to propose two-nation ory, inste of Muhamm Ali Jinnah.

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statement me by Congress leer:

Aiyar h said, "Present situation in India is an aberration. In 1923, a man called VD Savarkar invented a word which doesn't exist in any religious text, 'Hindutva'. So first proponent of two-nation ory was ideological guru of those who is currently in power in India."

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NCP's Majeed Memon questions Thackeray

In an effort to dismiss  claims of Pakistan never being formed if Savarkar was Prime Minister of country me by Uddhav Thackeray, Majeed Memon asked wher Savarkar was worth becoming Prime Minister of nation at time. He questioned Savarkar's abilities, asking if he would have been able to acquire position of leer of nation at that point of time or if that as a consequence would le to Jinnah t being able to succeed in building Pakistan. Majeed Memon tifies that se discussions are completely futile and y would only le to 'hypotical situations', with consequential answers. Furrmore, he stated that in today's political scenario, se are discussions that are t relevant to current issues in hand.

About Veer Savarkar

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar who is also kwn as Veer Savarkar was an Indian Independence hero, politician, lawyer and formulator of 'Hindutva' philosophy. While he founded Abhinav Bharat Society, which wrote extensively on Indian Independence movement, he was arrested and sentenced for revolutionary activities to two life terms of imprisonment totalling fifty years and was moved to Cellular Jail in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He was later released in 1921. 

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