Key Points
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge slammed the BJP and in a tweet wrote, You can (make) changes in Textbooks but you cannot change the history of the country..
This is an attempt by the BJP-RSS, they can try as much as they want, but they cannot erase history...
The Congress on Wednesday accused the government of distorting history and whitewashing with a vengeance after several contents from NCERT textbooks, including Mahatma Gandhis assassination and subsequent ban on RSS for sometime, was dropped...
Speaking at a press conference, Congress leader Manish Tewari said that re-writing history has been an ongoing endeavour with the RSS and BJP, and this was not the first time such a thing happened...
Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate also attacked the BJP over the issue, alleging that they want to erase the contribution of Mahatma Gandhi by writing a new history..
