A day after Amit Shah blamed the country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for blunders on Kashmir, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said the Home Minister has a "habit of rewriting history".
"Pandit Nehru gave his life for India; he was in jail for years. Amit Shah is unaware of history. I cannot expect him to know history; he has the habit of rewriting it," Rahul Gandhi stated while addressing reporters outside parliament today. Rahul Gandhi is the great-grandson of Nehru.
"It is just a way of distracting people from real issues," added Gandhi.
This exchange comes in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's endorsement of the Centre's decision to revoke Article 370 and terminate the special status of Jammu and Kashmir four years ago.
In Parliament, Amit Shah blamed Jawaharlal Nehru for "two major blunders" - declaring a ceasefire in a war with Pakistan and taking the Kashmir issue to the United Nations.
"If there was no untimely ceasefire (during the war with Pakistan), there wouldn't have been a PoK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir). Our country was winning, had he (Nehru) waited for two days, the entire Kashmir would have been ours," said Shah.
"People say if not for Nehru, there would have been no Kashmir. People who know history, I want to ask them, Hyderabad faced a bigger problem, did Nehru go there? Did Nehru go to Lakshadweep, Junagarh or Jodhpur? He only used to go to Kashmir and even there he left the job unfinished," Shah said.
