New Delhi: Launching an assault on Congress for ‘distorting’ historical past, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned he plans to close all Madrasas in his state as they don’t seem to be wanted in ‘New India’.
Addressing an occasion in poll-bound Karnataka, Sarma mentioned as an alternative of madrasas, Assam wanted extra faculties, faculties and universities to coach people who would ultimately serve the nation.
Happening a tirade in opposition to the Opposition events, Sarma accused the Congress and Communists of ‘distorting’ historical past and misinterpreting info. He additionally labelled the Congress because the “new Mughals”.
“I come from Assam the place on a regular basis individuals arrive from Bangladesh. There’s a risk to our tradition and traditions. Just lately in a TV interview in Delhi, I used to be requested what my intention was in having shut down 600 madrasas. I mentioned that I’ve shut 600, however my intention is to close all madrasas,” information company PTI quoted CM Sarma as saying.
“There isn’t any want of madrasas on this ‘New India’. Now we have to maneuver ahead on this course, we have now to remodel our schooling system; time has come to rewrite our historical past in a brand new approach because it was distorted earlier,” he added.
Declaring that there are a lot of individuals on this nation who declare with satisfaction that they’re Muslims or Christians, the Assam CM mentioned, “I’ve no objections, however we wish individuals who will with satisfaction say, ‘I am a Hindu”.
He then went on to make unsubstantiated remarks in regards to the seventeenth century Mughal ruler Aurangzeb, who allegedly tried to destroy Hinduism, and recalled his modern Shivaji’s contributions to defending Sanatana Dharma and its traditions.
“We should rewrite historical past in a brand new approach. We should inform that Shivaji Maharaj was stronger than Aurangzeb. Such historical past needs to be written by Indians,” CM Sarma mentioned.
He asserted that India’s historical past is simply that of Shivaji, Durgadas Rathore and Guru Gobind Singh and accused the Congress and Communists of getting made historical past of Babar, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb as ‘India’s historical past’.
“Temples are being constructed below the governance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. That is New India. Earlier, Mughals tried to weaken India, and now Congress is doing it. Congress are at this time’s new Mughals,” he additional mentioned.
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