All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging that party changed history in NCERT textbooks.
Owaisi said, “This BJP has changed the NCERT syllabus, held Muslims responsible for the partition, we are not responsible for the partition…”
The AIMIM chief claimed that Vinayak Damodar Savarkar “was the first to raise the slogan of partition, Mountbatten is responsible for the partition, the Congress government of that time is responsible, how are we responsible for the partition?…”
“You have also removed from NCERT the reason why Mahatma Gandhi was killed by Godse…,” Owaisi said.
This came after NCERT introduced new modules on the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, which holds Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Congress leadership, and then Viceroy Lord Mountbatten responsible for India’s partition.
Earlier on August 17, Assam Assembly Deputy Speaker Numal Momin and senior BJP leader called Congress leader Rahul Gandhi the new avatar of Jinnah.
“He [Rahul Gandhi] is exactly playing the role of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Rahul Gandhi is the new avatar of Muhammad Ali Jinnah,” Momin told ANI.
“The people of the country weren’t able to know about the knowledge of the facts, now the NCERT module reveals the ‘Culprits of Partition’,” Momin said.
“Jinnah first demanded the Partition of India, Congress accepted it, and Lord Mountbatten implemented it. The culprits of the Partition of India are Jinnah and Congress, and they were solely responsible for the Partition of our country,” Momin said.
“This is a sad part of Indian history. This Congress party has always tried to divide our country. Whenever Rahul Gandhi visited outside of the country, he tried to defame our country and malign the image of our country. He is playing the role of Muhammad Ali Jinnah,” he added.