After a BJP MP sought the opinion of Rahul Gandhi‘s grandmother and former prime minister Indira Gandhi on Savarkar, Rahul said she told him that Savarkar had compromised with the British. “I had asked her once when I was small. She said Savarkar wrote a letter to the British and asked for forgiveness from the British,” he said in Lok Sabha. Rahul added that “Indira Gandhi also said that Mahatma Gandhi went to jail, Nehru went to jail and Savarkar apologised. That was Indira Gandhi’s position.”