Yogi rejects theory of Aryan invasion

GORAKHPUR: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday rejected the theory of the Aryan invasion of India.

The concept that “Aryans came from outside” is bogus, he said, alleging that Leftist historians manipulated facts at the instance of the British.

The popular Hindu sentiment is that Aryans have indigenous roots, he said.

“None of the Hindu texts, including the Vedas, the Purans, the Upanishads or the Ramayan and the Mahabharat says that Aryans have come from outside. Even Mother Sita addressed Lord Ram as Aryaputra in the Ramayan. But the cunning British asked historians of the Leftist ideology to manipulate facts by making people read that the Aryans came from outside.”

The chief minister said this while addressing a gathering on the second day of a programme to mark the 52nd death anniversary of Mahant Digvijay Nath and the seventh death anniversary of Mahant Avaidyanath, the former head priest of the Gorakhnath temple. Yogi Adityanath heads the Gorakhnath temple as the current Mahant.

Terming it a misrepresentation of facts and a “black chapter” of history, the CM said that a conspiracy caused the nation to suffer for long as it didn’t let people know about their glorious past. “How will such knowledge inculcate the feeling of Mata Bhumi Putroham Prithivyam (The earth is our mother and we

are sons of the earth)?” he asked.

The chief minister further said that recent studies had found that the DNA of all Indians was the same and so the entire country was one.

“The dispute between Aryans and Dravidians is bogus and baseless. The studies have found all Indians have the same DNA,,” he said.