Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi killings were not martyrdom, but accidents, says Uttarakhand minister

Not martyrdom: Uttarakhand minister Ganesh Joshi on Tuesday triggered a controversy when he said that martyrdom is not the monopoly of the Gandhi family and that the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were "accidents".

"I pity Rahul Gandhi's intelligence. Martyrdom is not Gandhi family's monopoly. India's struggle for Independence saw the martyrdoms of Bhagat Singh, Sawarkar and Chandra Shekhar Azad. What happened with the members of the Gandhi family were accidents. There is a difference between accidents and martyrdom," Joshi was quoted by news agencies as saying.

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Bharat Jodo Yatra conclusion

"But one can speak only according to the level of one's intelligence," he said, when reporters referred to the Congress leader's speech at the concluding ceremony of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar on Monday.

Joshi is the state's Minister for Agriculture, Farmers Welfare, Rural Development and Sainik Kalyan. He also gave credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the smooth conclusion of Rahul Gandhi's Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir.

Credit to PM Modi

"The credit goes to the Prime Minister. If Article 370 had not been abolished under his leadership and normalcy had not returned to Jammu and Kashmir, Rahul Gandhi would not have been able to unfurl the national flag at Lal Chawk. BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi had unfurled the Tricolour at Lal Chawk when violence was at its peak in J&K," Joshi said.

While concluding the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar on Monday, Rahul Gandhi recalled the moments when he was informed about the assassination of his grandmother and father, former prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, over phone calls, and said the inciters of violence will never understand that pain.

"Those who incite violence – like Modiji, Amit Shahji, the BJP and the RSS – will never understand this pain. The family of an Army man will understand, the family of the CRPF personnel who were killed in Pulwama will understand, Kashmiris will understand that pain when one gets that call," Rahul Gandhi said during a rally in Srinagar on Monday.

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