By Express News Service
PALAKKAD: Speaker MB Rajesh on Tuesday got here out with a Facebook publish claiming that the CPM and DYFI had all the time cherished the contributions of Bhagat Singh and it was another political events that had sidelined the martyr.
Earlier, Rajesh had triggered a row after he reportedly equated the loss of life needs of Variankunnath Kunhammed Haji who he mentioned didn’t wish to be blindfolded earlier than being shot and freedom fighter Bhagat Singh who needed to be shot useless by the British than be hanged.
“The accusation some people raised against me was that I had compared the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh and Variankunnath Kunhammed Haji. On Bhagat Singh’s martyrdom on March 23, 2017, I had raised a demand in Parliament to name the Chandigarh airport after him. The MPs from Punjab and other political parties supported the demand but the members of one party kept silent. Even now, this demand has not been met to my knowledge,” he mentioned.
The statue of Bhagat Singh was put in in Parliament through the tenure of UPA I Government in 2004 based mostly on a letter given by then MP and DYFI normal secretary Mohammed Saleem. Even at the moment, some individuals had raised objections.
“When AB Vajpayee came to power in 1998, he unveiled a portrait of Savarkar in the Central Hall of Parliament which had created a controversy. Therefore, it is those who had ignored demands to install a statue of Bhagat Singh and those who had instead chosen to unveil a portrait of Savarkar who should apologise and not me,” he mentioned.
Rajesh mentioned that not solely Bhagat Singh, all Jallianwalla Bagh martyrs had been additionally not remembered in a correct method. He requested as to why in 2019, the centenary yr of Jallianwala Bagh martyrdom, these in energy didn’t take the initiative to look at it befittingly in the entire of the nation.
