“Why Do You Hate Nehru So A lot”: Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut Asks Centre

Mumbai:

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday mentioned the exclusion of former high minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s image from a poster launched by way of a frame of the Union Schooling Ministry to mark the 75th yr of India’s independence displays the Centre’s “slender mindset”, and requested the Union govt why it “hates” Nehru such a lot.

Mr Raut, in his weekly column ‘Rokhthok’ within the Sena mouthpiece Saamana, mentioned the Indian Council of Ancient Analysis (ICHR), an self reliant frame underneath the Ministry of Schooling, has excluded the images of Nehru and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad from its poster, and alleged that it used to be an act of “political vindictiveness”.

“Those that had no participation within the freedom combat and growing historical past are holding out one of the most heroes of the independence combat. This act, achieved out of political vindictiveness, isn’t just right and displays their slender mindset. It’s an insult of every freedom fighter,” Mr Raut claimed.

One will have variations over Nehru’s insurance policies after independence, however no person can deny his contribution to the liberty combat, mentioned the Rajya Sabha member, who’s the chief editor of Saamana.

“What has Nehru achieved to hate him such a lot? In truth, the establishments he constructed are actually being offered to stay the Indian economic system shifting,” Mr Raut mentioned, whilst regarding the Nationwide Monetization Pipeline (introduced not too long ago by way of the Centre), and claimed it used to be because of Nehru’s “long-term imaginative and prescient” that the rustic used to be stored from financial devastation.

Raut, whose party stocks energy with the NCP and Congress in Maharashtra, mentioned Tamil Nadu Leader Minister M Ok Stalin not too long ago took a choice no longer to take away footage of former state CMs Jayalalitha and EK Palaniswami from faculty luggage which have been being allotted unfastened to kids within the southern state.

“If he (Mr Stalin) can display political adulthood, why do you hate Nehru such a lot? You owe a solution to the country,” the Shiv Sena’s leader spokesperson mentioned, with out naming the BJP.

The Modi govt’s grievance of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra used to be comprehensible, he mentioned, claiming that the Centre made its hatred public by way of converting the identify of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.

“You can not smash the immortal contribution of Nehru and (former high minister) Indira Gandhi in nation-building. Those that deny Nehru’s contributions can be referred to as villains of historical past,” Mr Raut additional claimed.

(Aside from for the headline, this tale has no longer been edited by way of TTN NEWS body of workers and is printed from a syndicated feed.)