Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh stirred up a hornet's nest once again on Thursday, when he said that Veer Savarkar, the man who coined the word “Hindutva” and who was a source of inspiration for the Sangh Parivar, had been the first to float the two-nation theory that led to the partition of India. “It was Veer Savarkar who first mooted the idea of a two-nation theory which was later adopted by Muhammad Ali Jinnah,” he said.
Mr. Singh apparently said this at a book launch function at the India Islamic Centre here, and then repeated it to journalists who sought confirmation at the All-India Congress Committee headquarters on Thursday evening.
The Congress general secretary said the point he was making was that both Savarkar and Jinnah were non-believers: “All extreme ideological people are non-believers. A good Hindu or a good Muslim is always a believer,” he said.
