Celebrating a killer is an anti-national act: Cong on Godse praise

Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Sunday condemned Union Guriraj Singh over his praise of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse, saying that celebrating or glorifying the person who killed the Father of the Nation is nothing short of an “anti-national act”. His remark was in response to the Union minister calling Godse a “sapoot” (son of the soil). Taking to his official Twitter handle, the Congress leader posted, “Mahatma Gandhi is the Father of the Nation. Celebrating his killer is an anti-national act. But if you’re in the BJP, celebrating Godse is a badge of honour.” He tweeted further that the recent remarks by Union Minister Giriraj Singh and former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat only go to show the “mindset’ of the party that they represent