What this veteran Gandhian witnessed at Rajghat is indeed intensely disturbing

Renowned Gandhian, activist and physicist Professor VK Tripathi witnessed an “intensely worrisome” event at the Gandhi Samadhi on his birthday on October 2, 2021. “The children of the Hindutva criminals who assassinated him have captured places which are supposed to keep Gandhiji's heritage alive”, says Deepak Joshi in a Faceook post, insisting, “We should strongly protest against it. It is already too late.”
Quoted by Joshi as also others, including Prof Shamsul Islam, a well-known political scientist, Tripathi, who released a short video, too, had this to say in an email alert:

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Friends,
Yesterday, October 2, I visited farmers at Ghazipur border in the morning and gave them fliers and book "zameen ke neeche ka Hindostan". From there I reached Gandhi Samaadhi, Rajghat, at 12 noon. My daughter Rakhi and granddaughters Ananya and Aaliya also reached there with the posters they had made on Gandhi. After spending some time at the Samaadhi, we went into a shamiyana (tent) where 30 people were spinning on charkha.

Prof Sita Bimbra was giving a speech. She blamed earlier prime ministers for not doing enough to promote Hindi. She termed farmers movement as dalaal movement. Then she said Hinduism was in danger and narrated a tale of a Hindu boy expressing his resentment to conversion by pulling beard of a Muslim. This all looked inhuman and vulgar. I said from the margins of tent, “Sita ji aap aisa kaise bol sakti hain.” Rakhi also expressed her resentment.
Gandhi Samaadhi used to be a place that inspired truthfulness, humility and spirit to fight oppression and hatred. Now it is filled with soldiers and such people. After the incident, Rakhi made this brief video.

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