New Delhi: In comments that may trigger a controversy, former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju has called Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi a British agent, who did great harm to India, Katju wrote in his blog. Katju said that ‘by constantly injecting religion into politics continuously for several decades, Gandhi furthered the British policy of divide and rule’.
I submit that Gandhi was objectively a British agent who did great harm to India,” he wrote on his Facebook profile. By constantly injecting religion into politics continuously for several decades, Gandhi furthered the British policy of divide and rule,” he added.
He also called Gandhi’s ideology of Satyagrah ‘nonsensical. Gandhi successfully diverted the freedom struggle from this revolutionary direction to a harmless nonsensical channel called Satyagrah. This also served British interests,” he wrote.
He was also critical of his economic vision. Gandhi’s economic ideas were thoroughly reactionary. He advocated self sufficient village communities, though everybody knows that these communities were totally casteist and in the grip of landlords and money lenders. Gandhi was against industrialization, and preached handspinning by charkha and other such reactionary nonsense,” he wrote.
Katju had been embroiled in controversies due to his Facebook posts. Recently he had said that film actresses should be sent in Parliament. He also claimed that Gandhi was against industrialization and preached hand spinning by charkha and other such reactionary nonsense.
Bureau Report
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