While talking to ANI, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy called Bharat Ratna awardee Amartya Sen a traitor. Not only Amartya Sen but he even lashed out at the present government’s list of awardees.
He further said,
“They (RSS) are also citizens of this country. They have worked hard and were not recognized fully… I think RSS people have done social work without any expectation. NDA gave it to Amartya Sen, who is a traitor. What has he done for the country except looting Nalanda University? Just because he was left-wing and former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi pressed for it he got it.”
A Possible Reason
Recently the Congress attacked BJP for conferring the Padma Awards to RSS leaders. Swamy’s statement comes straight after the attack from the opposition. Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala had accused the government of conferring the Padma awards to persons who were engaged in propagation and expansion of the BJP.
Swamy took to Twitter to tweet names of five people who figured in Padma award list. The list includes RSS leader Ved Prakash Nanda and Kerala RSS Pracharak chief P Parmeshwar.
He said that the government gave the award to Nanda, who has been propagating the RSS views and Indian culture among the NRIs and Parmeshwar, who helped BJP establish itself in the state.