Opposition events attacked Home Minister Amit Shah for his remarks towards India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, with Congress leaders saying no one has the appropriate to insult those that fought towards British Rule and provided all the things to assist the liberty battle.
BJP leaders, nonetheless, asserted that no matter Shah stated within the Lok Sabha about Nehru is appropriate, and historical past must be informed.
Shah on Wednesday blamed Nehru’s “two major blunders” — declaring a ceasefire with out successful the complete Kashmir and taking the difficulty to the United Nations — for the sufferings of the folks of Jammu and Kashmir.
The house minister educated his weapons at Nehru whereas replying to a debate within the Lok Sabha on the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill.
Reacting to Shah’s remarks, Congress basic secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh wrote on X, “Today in the Lok Sabha, the home minister made deliberately provocative and blatantly false statements on Nehru’s role in J&K in 1947 and 1948”.
“Dr Farooq Abdullah immediately called out the distorian masquerading as a pseudo-historian,” he stated. Abdullah is the National Conference’s president and represents Srinagar within the Lower House of Parliament.
“These are tactics to derail the Congress and INDIA’s narratives, and I for one will not fall into the Shah trap. His office should get him to read Chandrasekhar Dasgupta’s masterly book, ‘War and Diplomacy in Kashmir’ in which many such myths have been exposed,” Ramesh added.
Congress MP Manish Tewari described Shah’s remarks towards Nehru as “absolutely erroneous” and informed PTI that “in hindsight with a six by six vision, you can find fault with any decision of the government”.
“Ceasefire happened because the then government was advised by the commander-in-chief of the Indian Army General Roy Bucher,” he stated, asserting that the ceasefire was “inevitable” then.
Tewari stated, “In so far as taking the matter to the United Nations is concerned, let’s not forget that the world was emerging from the devastating second world war which had killed millions and millions of people. The atomic bomb had been used for the first time.” He stated the United Nations was created as an establishment to finish all future wars and India was a signatory to the UN conference even earlier than it turned impartial.
“Therefore, the government at that point in time sought the intervention of the United Nations to make Pakistan vacate the territory it was illegally occupying, it was not a wrong decision,” the Anandpur Sahib MP added.
Congress Rajya Sabha MP and celebration’s Gujarat unit president Shaktisinh Gohil stated no one has the appropriate to make such feedback towards India’s first prime minister who fought towards British Rule and provided all the things to assist the liberty battle.
“Be it Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Nehru ji, Baba Saheb Ambedkar, they fought against the British, offered everything that they had including ancestral property on the feet of Mahatma Gandhi for freedom struggle,” he stated.
“Nehru and Patel were two sides of the same coin. The comment that he (Amit Shah) has made today is an insult to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Nehru ji. Nobody has the right to do so,” he stated, including, “Making such comments at this time is an insult to the country, Sardar Patel, Nehru Ji and their policies. Such politics is not good for the country at all”.
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Pramod Tiwari slammed Shah for his remarks, saying, “We would not have got freedom, if Pandit Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and other freedom fighters were not there. What Nehru saved amid those adverse circumstances (in Kashmir), thanks for that,” he added.
RSP chief and Lok Sabha member N Okay Premachandran stated it was “quite unfortunate” on the a part of central cupboard ministers describing India’s first prime minister’s “activities as Nehruvian blunders”.
“They are saying that these are the mistakes of the then prime minister (Nehru). Maybe a mistake but using the word blunder means it is a stupid mistake,” he stated and requested, “Is it the way of addressing the first prime minister of the country, freedom fighter and architect of modern India.” “I don’t say that it’s unparliamentary. Maybe there is no technical defect in it. But at the same time we have to maintain the decorum and have mutual respect for each other, be it is treasury benches or opposition side,” Premchandran informed PTI.
Abdullah stated, “They have always had differences with Nehru. There is nothing new in it. They will never acknowledge Nehru’s work. So it keeps happening. This is politics”.
BJP chief and Union Minister Giriraj Singh described Shah’s remarks about Nehru as appropriate and claimed that “happiness” has returned in Jammu and Kashmir for the reason that scrapping of Article 370.
Another BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur described Shah’s remarks on Nehru as “most appropriate” and added, “History has to be told in the present”.
(This story has been edited by 247 I News employees and is printed from a syndicated news company feed – PTI)
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