New Delhi: Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar seems to have rewritten history. While addressing a gathering at Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara on Monday, Javadekar committed a blooper by calling former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and ex-home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as 'Shaheed'.
During his speech, he said that freedom fighters like Nehru and Patel were hanged while fighting for India's freedo
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader made the blunder while taking part in 'Tiranga Yatra'.
Besides naming Nehru and Patel, Javadekar further added that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was also hanged by the Britishers.
Javadekar, a Union HRD Minister, is factually wrong as Nehru died in 1964 due to natural ailments , while Sardar Patel died in 1950.
Moreover, Netaji's death still remains a mystery. While two commissions of inquiry had concluded that Bose had died in a plane crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945, a third probe panel, headed by Justice MK Mukherjee, had contested it and suggested that Bose was alive.
The minister is incidently responsible for India’s education portfolio and was given this charge recently during a cabinet reshuffle.
With his embarrassing gaffe, Javdekar joins the group of BJP leaders including the prime minister himself, who’ve been known for glaring historical mistakes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi did that during Lok Sabha campaign when he said Chandragupta Maurya was from Gupta dynasty.
At a rally in Patna he had said, “When we are reminded of the Gupta Dynasty we are reminded of Chandragupta’s rajneeti.”
In the same rally, Modi had said that ‘Alexander’s army conquered the entire world, but was defeated by the Biharis.’ Alexander’s army, as history books would tell us, never crossed Ganga to be defeated by Biharis.
Modi had also described Taxlia, the learning hub of ancient times, being in Bihar. Indeed a learning hub of ancient times, but Taxila, which is now in Pakistan is nowhere in the close proximity of Bihar.
Not so long ago in Assam, the BJP President, Amit Shah had changed the state’s history by 300 years.
Days after jantakareporter carried the video of Shah’s embarrassing gaffe, the video mysteriously disappeared from the YouTube.
In a bid to garner votes from the indigenous Assamese population, Shah had told a rally how Chaolung Sukapha, the founder of the Ahom Kingdom, had defeated Mughals 17 times.
But, Shah’s speech writers, missed the historical facts by just 300 years.
Sukapha founded Ahom dynasty in 1228 AD and died in 1268 AD.
Mughal dynasty in India started after the first Battle of Panipat in 1526 AD.
