BJP ally JDU slams move: History is history, cannot be reversed | India News,The Indian Express

Congress Rajya Sabha MP and its general secretary (communication) Jairam Ramesh said, “Selective amnesia of the recent past is as bad as rewriting of the ancient one.”

Reacting sharply to the BJP-led government’s attempt to “rewrite history” in the name of “rationalisation of history”, NDA partner JD(U) said Saturday “history is history and it cannot be reversed”. It also called for an NDA coordination committee so that allies do not differ on important policy matters.

JD (U) national spokesperson and former Rajya Sabha MP KC Tyagi, responding to The Indian Express report ‘From Emergency to Gujarat riots, lessons of past deleted from textbooks of future’, said, “History is history and it cannot be reversed or rewritten. Jo ghatnayen ghat gayi, achchhi ya buri, reverse nahi ki ja sakti (incidents that took place, good or bad, cannot be reversed). Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been amply clear on the matter. He recently said that history cannot be rewritten.”

This was a reference to Nitish Kumar’s response last week to a media query on Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s remark that “we can write our own history”.

Objecting to the dropping of chapters from NCERT’s history books, Tyagi said, “Present and future generations should know history the way it was. What was the point in dropping the chapter on the Emergency? We, as NDA, can gather on June 25 to condemn the Emergency on its anniversary. History students should know its history as a test case for violation of human rights and democratic norms.”

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