The country will not tolerate Gandhiji’s insult—Rajesh Lilothia

aaj ki delhi/yograaj sharma.| When the country is gearing up to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, it is a sacrilege to change the name of ‘Gandhi Ashram Marg’ in the name of the father of a BJP sympathizer—Rajesh Lilothia. · The country will not tolerate Gandhiji’s insult—Rajesh Lilothia · Gandhi Ashram Marg Bachao Andolan Samiti organizes a massive demonstration at Narela.

NEW DELHI, September 13—Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee Working President Shri Rajesh Lilothia said that the country will not tolerate Gandhiji’s insult at any cost. He said that on the one hand, the country was gearing up to observe the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and on the other hand, it was indeed very shameful that a road named as ‘Gandhi Ashram Marg’ has been renamed in the name of a BJP sympathizer’s father at Ward No 1 in the Narela Assembly constituency. Addressing a massive demonstration organized by the Gandhi Ashram Marg Bachao Andolan Samiti at Narela today, Shri Lilothia said that when the whole world was going to oranise Gandhiji’s birth anniversary on 2nd October as the “World Non-Violence Day”, his own country was trying to besmirch his name as the BJP and the RSS, in a bid to implement a hidden and narrow political agenda, have renamed the Gandhi Ashram Marg in the name of the father of a BJP sympathizer. Prominent others who participated in the demonstration were leader of the Congress party in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation Shri Mukesh Goel, Praveen Kumar, Subash Bhardwaj, Charanjit Rai, Shiv Charan Yogi, Gandhi Ashram Marg Bachao Andolan Samiti’s Surender Mahrolia, Naresh Gupta, Sharanjit Chawla and thousands of local people and Congress workers. Shri Lilothia said that the renaming of the Gandhi Ashram Marg was not only an insult to Gandhiji and his sacrifices for the freedom of the country, but also to all those freedom fighters who became martyrs for the cause of freedom struggle whereas the RSS had colluded with the British to betray the freedom movement. He said that India belonged to Gandhiji and the people of the country will not tolerate an insult to Gandhiji’s name. Sending out a warning to the Renaming Committee of the North MCD, Shri Lilothia said that today’s massive demonstration was a strong message to it that it should immediately rectify its gross mistake and restore the road at Ward No I as Gandhi Ashram Marg latest by 2nd October, 2019. He said that it is a well-known fact that the road was known as Gandhi Ashram Marg, and it was a sacrilege to rename it in the name of the father of a BJP sympathizer. He said that not only the local people, but also the entire country will oppose the decision of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, and the fight will be intensified till the name of the Gandhi Ashram Marg is restored.