Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for insulting late Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar and claimed Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru once "apologised" to get released from jail.

Amid demands by the Bharatiya Janata Party that he apologise for insulting Other Backward Classes with his Modi surname and thieves remark, for which he was convicted by a court and as a result disqualified as Lok Sabha MP, Rahul Gandhi had shot back saying "my name is not Savarkar, my name is Gandhi and Gandhi does not offer an apology to anyone".