Bhargava, who returned Padma award, pro-naxal: BJP's Ram Madhav

October 30, 2015 10:09

In a statement, which is likely to kick start another controversy, senior BJP leader Ram Madhav today called top scientist Pushpa Mittra Bhargava a pro-naxal and political savvy. Taking to Twitter, Madhav wrote, "Rants of a disgruntled pro-Naxal politically savvy scientist from Hyderabad gets so much space. India's top scientist in defence research VK Saraswat addressed RSS Vijayadashami function last week at Nagpur in the company of RSS Chief Shri Bhagwatji. No space for the views of this real scientist and many more!!!"

Madhav's statement comes a day after Bhargava announced to return his Padma Bhushan award alleging that the NDA government was trying to make India into a "Hindu religious autocracy".

Bhargava, who founded the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, said he will return the award conferred on him in 1986 because he felt the climate in the country was of "very strong fear" and it was "against rationality, against reason and against scientific temper".

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