Mumbai: Taking a jibe at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government over the removal of Jawaharlal Nehru’s picture from a poster issued by a body of the Union Ministry of Education to mark the 75th year of India’s independence, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said that This shows. Asked the “narrow mindset” of the Center and the ruling government as to why it “hates” the country’s first prime minister so much.
Raut said the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), an autonomous body under the education ministry, has removed the photographs of Nehru and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad from its posters.
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Taking the view in his weekly column ‘Rokhthok’ in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, the Shiv Sena leader alleged that it was an act of “political vendetta”.
“Those who had no participation in the freedom struggle and were creating history, are keeping out one of the heroes of the freedom struggle. This act done in the spirit of political vendetta is not good and shows their narrow mindset. It is an insult to every freedom fighter,” he said, reported PTI.
Raut, executive editor of ‘Saamana’, said that there may be differences of opinion on Nehru’s policies after independence, but no one can deny his contribution to the Indian freedom struggle.
What has Nehru done to hate him so much? In fact, the institutions created by him are now being sold to prop up the Indian economy,” he said, referring to the National Monetization Pipeline, which was recently announced by the Centre.
The Rajya Sabha MP claimed that it was because of Nehru’s “long-term vision” that India was saved from economic catastrophe.
Raut, in his weekly column ‘Rokhthok’, has recently criticized Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on former Chief Ministers J. Jayalalithaa and Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s decision not to remove the photographs from the school bags, which were being distributed free of cost. For children in the southern state.
“If he (Stalin) can show political maturity, why do you hate Nehru so much? You have to answer the country,” he said without naming the ruling BJP.
Raut further said that Congress President Sonia Gandhi and party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s criticism of the Prime Minister Modi-led government is understandable and claimed that the Center made public its hatred by renaming the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award .
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“You cannot destroy the immortal contribution of Nehru and (former prime minister) Indira Gandhi in nation building. Those who deny Nehru’s contribution will be called the villains of history.
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