Sadhvi Prachi, the firebrand saffron leader, triggered yet another controversy by questioning the “Father of the Nation†title to Mahatma Gandhi. “The country did not attain freedom merely by spinning wheel...freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Ram Prasad Bismil and Veer Savarkar were the real heroes of freedom struggle,†Sadhvi said. "The title of the Father of Nation to Gandhi was unwarranted because the true sacrifice for attaining freedom was carried out by others. The credit for India's independence was wrongly attributed to Gandhi when it should have been given to Vir Savarkar and Bhagat Singh," the VHP leader said. Addressing a convention organised by the VHP at the Ramleela Grounds in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh city on Monday night, the Sadhvi said the controversial Ghar Wapsi (religious re-conversion) programme will continue till the 15 crore people who, she claimed, have left the Hindu fold after independence are "reconverted to Hinduism". The right-wing group has also announced that it would launch a movement to rename Aligarh as Harigarh which, it claimed, was the city's original name.
