Advani a Hindutva icon despite being from a convent school: Congress to Goa minister
Panaji: Opposition Congress on Tuesday hit back at Goa minister Deepak Dhavalikar, whose party MGP is the alliance partner in the BJP-led government, over his remarks on convent schools and Indian culture, saying that BJP veteran LK Advani still remains a “Hindutva icon” despite being the product of a missionary school.
Dhavalikar, who heads the portfolio of Factories and Boilers, has stoked a controversy by urging parents against enrolling their wards in convent schools “since they do not teach Hindu culture”.
He also said that the Western culture provokes rape. “Advani, who is the topmost BJP leader, went to Catholic school (sic) during his childhood. (But) he remains an icon of Hindutva,” Congress’s state unit spokesman Agnelo Fernandes said.
Dhavalikar has stoked a controversy by urging parents against enrolling their wards in convent schools “since they do not teach Hindu culture”.
He said that despite attending a missionary school, Advani did not become a western-cultured person.
“Convent school education did not make him a western- cultured person. Why is Dhavalikar raising such issues which have the potential to cause the communal hatred?” he asked. The Congress leader said that people should not fall prey to such statements that link Western culture with rape. Interestingly, Dhavalikar’s wife Lata had caused a flutter when she said that rapes were on the rise as women were aping western culture.
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