Congress leader Jairam Ramesh launched a scathing attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming on Saturday that the Congress manifesto “completely bears the imprint of the Muslim League”.
Responding to PM Modi’s comments, Ramesh posted a video on Twitter, “reminding” the Prime Minister of the history. He claimed that Syama Prasad Mukherjee, founder of the Jana Sangh and president of the Hindu Mahasabha, was “running a coalition government with the Muslim League in Bengal, Sindh and the North West Frontier Province”.
“The Prime Minister said that the Congress adopted the policy of the Muslim League. Let me remind the Prime Minister which person, which Muslim party was in the coalition government with the Muslim League in Bengal in 1940, 1941 and 1942.” Ramesh asked in a video message.
“Syama Prasad Mukherjee, who was the founder of the Jana Sangh and president of the Hindu Mahasabha, had formed a coalition government with the Muslim League. There was an alliance between the Hindu Mahasabha and the Muslim League in Bengal, in Sindh and in the North-West Frontier Province,” the Congress MP. Jairam Ramesh claimed.
While talking to news agency ANI he Said“Syama Prasad Mukherjee had compromised with Jinnah’s Muslim League. Congress had never compromised…”
The Muslim League and Mohammad Ali Jinnah sought to divide British India into separate Hindu and Muslim states. After the formation of Pakistan in 1947, the League became the major political party of Pakistan.
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‘Lal Krishna Advani praised Jinnah’
Ramesh further claimed that veteran BJP leaders Lal Krishna Advani and Jaswant Singh “went to Pakistan and praised Jinnah”.
A Hindustan Times Reports published in 2013 claimed that in 2005, Advani, one of the co-founders of the BJP, had incurred the wrath of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) when he visited Pakistan and criticized its founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s “secular” views. Admired as a personality. ,
Advani’s remarks, recorded at Jinnah’s mausoleum in Karachi, had reportedly undermined the RSS’s theory that he was responsible for the painful partition.
according to another Hindustan Times According to reports, Jaswant Singh was expelled from the BJP for his controversial book “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence”, which allegedly praised Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
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Published: 06 April 2024, 07:17 PM IST
