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The Congress on Monday slammed BJP leader Anantkumar Hegde for reportedly calling the Mahatma Gandhi-led freedom movement a “drama”, saying the Father of the Nation did not need a certificate from the “cadre of Britishers’ chamchas and spies”.

Hegde, a former Union minister, reportedly claimed at an event in Bengaluru that the entire freedom movement was staged with the consent and support of the British, and the independence movement led by Gandhi was a “drama”.

“Mahatma Gandhi does not need a certificate from cadre of Britishers’ ‘chamchas and spies’,” Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill said in a tweet. It is high time the BJP is renamed “Nathuram Godse Party”, he added.