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Gandhi was a British agent, alleges Katju
Press Council chairman Justice Markandey Katju on Tuesday stirred another controversy by calling Mahatma Gandhi a British agent in his latest blog post. “I submit that Gandhi was objectively a British agent who did great harm to India,\" he wrote. Katju said Gandhi did great harm to India by injecting religion into politics.
New Delhi: Press Council chairman Justice Markandey Katju on Tuesday stirred another controversy by calling Mahatma Gandhi a British agent in his latest blog post. “I submit that Gandhi was objectively a British agent who did great harm to India," he wrote. Katju said Gandhi did great harm to India by injecting religion into politics. "By constantly injecting religion into politics continuously for several decades, Gandhi furthered the British policy of divide and rule," Katju said in his blog.
"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 hand-spinning by charkha and other such reactionary nonsense. Similarly, his ' trusteeship ' theory was all nonsense and an act of deceiving the people," he added.
