New Delhi: In one of his recent blog posts Justice Markandey Katju (retd.), former Supreme Court of India judge and ex-Chairman of Press Council of India, has called Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi as a ‘ Chaalak Paakhandi ‘ (A cunning hypocrite).
Justice Katju said Gandhi was the root cause of most of the evils in public life in India today.
Justice Markandey Katju
“When such a fake and fraud, who furthered the British policy of divide and rule by by speaking publicly for decades of Hindu religious ideas e.g. Ramrajya, go-raksha (cow protection), varnashram dharma (caste system), brahmachjarya (celibacy), etc which were bound to drive Muslims towards the Muslim League and India towards Partition, and who effectively diverted the freedom struggle from the revolutionary direction towards which Bhagat Singh, Surya Sen (Masterda), Chandrashekhar Azad, Ashfaqulla, Rajguru, Ram Prasas Bismil, Khudiram Bose and others were taking it to, towards harmless nonsensical channels like satyagrah, and who preached reactionary economic ideas like handspinning by charkha and the deceptive idea of trusteeship, was designated as ‘The Father of the Nation’ soon after Independence in 1947, then the present pathetic state and low level of Indian public life became inevitable” Justice Katju writes in his blog post titled: “Chaalak Paakhandi”.
“Unless we strip the mask from the face of this cunning fraud, and expose him as a feudal minded hypocrite serving British interests, no improvement is possible” said Justice Katju in his blog dated March 12, 2015.