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A day after Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar compared Mahatma Gandhi with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Senior Congress leader and former I&B Minister Manish Tewari said that comparing the great Mahatma Gandhi to anybody is nothing short of a “sacrilege”.
Vice President Dhankhar had described Mahatma Gandhi as the ‘Mahapurush’ of the last century and PM Modi as the ‘Yugpurush’ of this century.
“The great Mahatma, fashioned, crafted and honed, the instrument of non-violence. As a means of passive resistance when the only thing the world knew was war as a means of resistance and conflict as a method of opposing oppression. At this time Mahatma mobilized millions and millions of Indians to passively struggle against British imperialism and was the harbinger of India’s freedom in 1947,” Manish Tewari said.
#WATCH | Delhi: Cong leader Manish Tewari says, “The great Mahatma fashioned craft and honed the instrument of non-violence as a means of passive resistance when the only thing the world knew was war as a means of resistance and conflict as a method of opposing oppression…He… https://t.co/tdpGnMUzJx pic.twitter.com/6kralp8id6
— ANI (@ANI) November 28, 2023
Tewari said the Mahatma was a secularist and democratic in his disposition and the only person who measured upto him was Nelson Mandela.
“Mahatma Gandhi has been considered to be perhaps the tallest figure of the 20th century. The only person who measures up to him in some manner is the late Nelson Mandela, who had dismantled apartheid in South Africa,” the former I&B Minister said. Tewari later tweeted in X
The @VPIndia never ceases to amaze.
This one has 👇🏾however taken the cake of ……
We may have personal views but to be completely unmindful of the position one occupies is beyond belief.
SAD WHAT HAS THE VICE PRESIDENCY COME TOO….. pic.twitter.com/a7qQtwCVI1
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) November 28, 2023
“Even Mandela used to consider the great Mahatma as a spiritual mentor, therefore under those circumstances, to compare the great Mahatma to anybody for that matter is nothing short of sacrilege,” Tewari added.
