History books will be rewritten: Dy CM
Describing Mughal emperors Babur and Aurangzeb as plunderers who never respected Indian values, deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma on Tuesday said the history books of the state board will be rewritten by a panel of independent historians.
Describing Mughal emperors Babur and Aurangzeb as plunderers who never respected Indian values, deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma on Tuesday said the history books of the state board will be rewritten by a panel of independent historians.
The deputy chief minister, who holds the secondary and higher education portfolios, said Babur and Aurangzeb committed atrocities, while Bahadur Shah Zafar was a patriot.
“That’s why Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his (Bahadur Shah Zafar’s) tomb in Myanmar recently,” he said.
Sharma was participating in the Safaigiri awards of a Delhibased media house here.
Asserting that the cruelty of Akbar would not be part of Indian history, he declared his “good side with Birbal” will be put in the books. He said , “Till now Europeans, Turks, Moghuls, French, Chinese and Communists have written Indian history but now the things have changed.”
Claiming that icons like Guru Teg Bahadur, Maharana Pratap, Guru Govind Singh and Shivaji, were shown as dacoits in textbooks, he said such things would be changed. “We must learn to respect our ancestors. We do not carry the legacy of invaders but we carry the legacy of Lord Ram, Krishna, Guru Nanak, Mahavir, Gautam Buddha , Guru Govind Singh and Shivaji. We will have to study more about them, not about invaders,” he said.
To a question on the Taj Mahal, he said, “The Taj Mahal is an outstanding monument depicting Indian craftsmanship but Shahjahan amputated the hands of artisans who made the Taj. This is not Indian culture and shows he was barbaric. He created a feeling of panic among artisans and engineers who could not gather the courage to build more such monuments.”
SAFAIGIRI AWARDS GIVEN TO OFFICIALS
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath gave Safaigiri awards to officials of 16 Uttar Pradesh districts on Tuesday. The awards were sponsored by a Delhi-based media house. The awards went to Siddharth Nagar DM Rajesh Singh, Gorakhpur municipal commis- sioner Prem Prakash Singh, Varanasi DM Yogeshwar Ram, Lucknow DM Kaushalraj Sharma, DMs of Rae Bareli, Farrukhabad, Aurraiyya, Jhansi, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Lalitpur, Gautambudh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Meerut, and Baghpat.