Opposition parties led by Congress on Tuesday hit back at Home Minister Amit Shah for his attack on India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, saying the BJP leader probably does not know history and “keeps rewriting” it.
National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah too said India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru was not responsible for Article 370, as he expressed disappointment over the Supreme Court’s order upholding its abrogation.
Ràjya Sabha members, Manoj Jha of RJD and Priyanka Chaturvedi of Shiv Sena (Udhhav) too regretted that just in name of hatred towards the first PM Nehru the current regime is out in open to change the historical facts. “Brute majority is all that speaks,” Chaturvedi said.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said the whole matter was about distracting from the issue of caste census and in whose hands the country’s money is going.
“I don’t know why they have venom against Nehru. Nehru is not responsible. When Article (370) came, Sardar Patel was there. Nehru was in America when the Cabinet meeting happened. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was also present when the decision was made,” said Abdullah, a former chief minister of the erstwhile state.
Speaking in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, Shah had blamed Nehru for the Kashmir problem, pointing to the “mistakes” of ordering an “untimely” ceasefire and taking the issue to the United Nations.
