New Delhi: Lamenting that there is today a big chasm between the politics of the country and its citizens, the joint opposition nominee for Vice President Gopalkrishna Gandhi today said people faith in politics had diminished and he would like to see its revival.
Responding to allegations by Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut that he opposed death penalty for Mumbai blasts accused Yaqub Memon, Mr Gandhi, who filed his nomination for the post here, said, ‘I believe that the death penalty and capital punishment belong to the medieval ages.
I believe that the death penalty is wrong.
I believe in that and in that capacity, as a person who is opposed to the death penalty, I have taken inspiration from two persons, Mahatma Gandhi who was against the death sentence and Babasaheb Ambedkar who said, it is only proper that we should do away with the death penalty altogether.
‘ In this context, he said he had written a letter to Pakistan President to remove the death penalty on Indian citizen Kulbhushan Jadhav.
