Press Council chairman Justice Markandey Katju stirred another controversy by terming Father of the Nation Mahama Gandhi as a British agent who followed the politics of divide and rule. in his latest blog post.He said Gandhi did great harm to India by injecting religion into politics. Known for issuing controversial statements,Justice Markandey Katju did it again by calling Gandhi’s ideology of Satyagrah ‘nonsensical’. "By constantly injecting religion into politics continuously for several decades, Gandhi furthered the British policy of divide and rule," Katju said in his blog. He also said that Gandhi's economic ideas were thoroughly reactionary. "He advocated self sufficient village communities, though everybody knows that these communities were totally casteist and in the grip of landlords and money lenders. Gandhi was against industrialization, and preached handspinning by charkha and other such reactionary nonsense. Similarly, his ' trusteeship ' theory was all nonsense, and an act of deceiving the people." He said Gandhi did great harm to India by injecting religion into politics. Thus Gandhi wrote in ' Young India ' on 10.6.1921 " I am a Sanatani Hindu. I believe in the varnashram dharma. I believe in protection of the cow ". In his public meetings the Hindu bhajan ' Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram ' would be loudly sung. Now Indians are a religious people, and they were even more religious in the first half of the 20th century. A sadhu or swamiji may preach such ideas to his followers in his ashram, but when they are preached day in and day out by a political leader, what effect will these speeches and writings have on an orthodox Muslim mind ? It would surely drive him towards a Muslim organization like the Muslim League, and so it did. Was this not serving the British policy of divide and rule ? By constantly injecting religion into politics for several decades, was Gandhi not objectively acting as a British agent ?.
