Pawan Khera said that right-wing ideology has always been on the wrong side of history. (file)
Karnataka:
The Congress on Saturday slammed the BJP for putting front page advertisements in some local dailies in Karnataka, calling first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru the “grandfather” of the partition of India.
As Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodi Yatra’ (Unite India March) entered Karnataka for the second day, the state unit of the BJP brought out an advertisement in some Kannada newspapers, which read, “Can the great-grandson ‘Dada of Partition India’? Can unite.’ done?”
Advertisements painted in black, with a map dividing Pakistan and Bangladesh in the middle of photographs of Jawaharlal Nehru and Rahul Gandhi, read “Is India’s unity possible with a party that only inspired civilian bloodshed to come to power.” did?” The BJP alleged that the agenda of the ‘Bharat Jodi Yatra’ was to divide India.
The Congress strongly opposed the allegation, saying the right wing has always been on the wrong side of history.
shocked by the success of #India couple travel There is a front page advertisement of BJP in Kannada newspaper which distorts history as usual. Savarkar propounded the two-nation theory and Jinnah ensured it. The founder of Jana Sangh, Syama Prasad Mookerjee, supported the partition of Bengal.
— jairam ramesh (@jairam_ramesh) 1 October 2022
Congress President of Media and Publicity Pawan Khera told reporters, “BJP advertised. Right wing ideology has always been on the wrong side of history. Since they could not write history, they are trying to rewrite history. “
He alleged that the two-nation theory was first put forward by the Hindu Mahasabha in 1937 at the Ahmedabad conference, which was presided over by Hindutva ideologue Savarkar.
In 1942, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, repeated the same at the Lahore Conference of the Muslim League, the Congress leader said.
In 1942, when the Congress abandoned all provincial governments in protest and took part in the Quit India Movement, the assembly formed an alliance with three provincial assemblies – the Muslim League in West Bengal, the NWFP and Sindh, where the first resolution for Pakistan was passed. it was done. Mr Khera claimed.
“I challenge them (right wing) that they were in alliance with the Muslim League and they did not stop it. It is clear who did the partition of India. They (BJP) are talking to a man whose grandmother had worked in Pakistan. They (BJP) don’t know history before 1947 and 1971. They don’t know their own history,” Mr Khera alleged.
Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah, who was present there, said the BJP was teaching history to those who brought freedom.
“Which party united all the provinces and formed a nation? This is the Congress. Which RSS leader participated in the freedom struggle? Did RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar or the other Sarsangh driver Madhav Sadashivrao Golwalkar participate in the freedom struggle? Anyone from RSS died in freedom struggle? Now, these people are taking history lesson for Congress,” alleged Siddaramaiah.
“Nehru spent nine years in jail. Did he go to jail like Amit Shah?” Siddaramaiah alleged.
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