TIL Desk/National/Nagpur/ Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has said the IAF air strike on a terrorist training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed, the group behind the suicide bombing targeting CRPF personnel in Pulwama, inside Pakistan was a tribute to the martyrs of the Feb 14 assault. He recalled legendary freedom fighter Veer Savarkar’s observation that India needs to become powerful because without power, nobody listens.
He was speaking at the felicitation programme of computer scientist Vijay Bhatkar, who was given the Swatantrya Veer Savarkar Gaurav Puraskar. “We, as a nation, have the right to take the name of Veer Savarkar, because today we have paid a very appropriate 13th-day tribute to the 40 CRPF jawans martyred in Pulwama,” he said amid slogans of ‘Vande Mataram’.
He was reacting to the pre-dawn air strike by IAF jets on the biggest terrorist camp of Jaish inside Pakistan. The air strike came 12 days after the Pulwama attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed. Bhagwat said the slogan ‘Vande Mataram’ was not hollow but it has a lot of power. “The entire world has seen this today,” he said.