JAJPUR, Jan. 25 -- Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor said at the Jaipur Literature Festival on the two-nation theory that right-wing leader Veer Savarkar was the first to give the principle of two-nation. According to Shashi Tharoor, three years after Savarkar did this, the Muslim League had passed the Pakistan resolution.

In this sequence it also said that Savarkar, Golwalkar and Deendayal Upadhyaya were in favor of deciding nationality on the basis of religion. It is being said that the opposition can also become fierce attackers on this statement of the Congress leader who has often made headlines due to his statements.

Should religion be the identity of the nation The Congress MP said in the program that at the time ...