Mumbai: One of the freshest comment by a politician to draw flak in these times of unrest, is the speech that former Union minister and current BJP MP, Anantkumar Hegde, said that the struggles of the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, was merely a drama.

"They didn't even endure beatings from the police. It (freedom struggle) was a drama enacted with the support of the British," said Hegde. Hegde further called Gandhi’s hunger strikes and satyagraha, “drama”. He also said that RSS had nothing to do with Gandhi's assassination.

As usual, the Karnataka BJP has distanced itself from Hegde's statements, with the State BJP spokesperson G Madhusudhan saying the RSS holds Mahatma Gandhi in high esteem and won’t support “cheap” remarks against him.

While the anti-CAA protests seem to be continuing in full force even with Hindutva fanatics shooting at the protesters multiple times, one of the popular people to be the voice of dissent is Tushar Arun Gandhi, the great-grandson of the father of the nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Tushar Gandhi, who established the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation in Mumbai, has been out on the street and vocal on social media ever since the anti-CAA protests began. He also tweeted after Hegde's speech was reported in the media.

“For the first time in independent India, laws or systems are being attempted to be imposed which discriminate, which differentiate, on the basis of religion,” Tushar Gandhi told The Guardian while participating in a protest in Mewar, Haryana, where Mahatma Gandhi himself had conducted a protest rally during the time of partition. Also commenting on PM Narendra Modi's statement that he was a follower of Gandhi, Tushar said, “It’s not what you profess, but what you practice that makes the world realise who you follow.”