The June 2022 issue of Antim Jan, the magazine brought out by the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti of the Central Govt Culture Ministry which has the prime minister as the Chairman, has Veer Savarkar on its cover and lauds him as a 'great patriot' and whose place in India's history 'is no less than that of Gandhi'. This is how Nazi Germany's Goebbels responsible for the propaganda machine followed the maxim - 'If you repeat a lie a thousand times, it becomes the truth'. As to Savarkar who was a co-accused in the 1948 assassination of Gandhi and was let off for lack of evidence but was not acquitted, got his release from the cellular jail in the Andamans by filing mercy petitions. How can such a person be praised when he was suspected of being directly involved in planning to kill Gandhi. But what can you expect from the present dispensation in power who cannot boast of any freedom fighter who fought for India's Independence and who therefore have to resort to creating imaginary heroes to legitimise their present public spiels on nationalism and patriotism.
