On Tuesday, the Congress reacted strongly after BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia criticized the opposition Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi ‘only the Maharajas’. Ho, ‘But we can’t forget.’
Addressing a rally in Mhow on Monday, Gandhi said that Dalits, backward and tribals had no rights before independence, when “only the Maharajas and kings had the rights.”
He had said, “There has been a change with freedom. You get land and rights. BJP-RSS wants India of freedom, where the common people had no rights and only the rights like Adani and Ambani. Want the poor to silently suffer and do not dream, while the country is being run by billionaires. “
Attacking Gandhi’s statement, Scindia said that the statement on the role of the royal houses of India before independence, considering the constitution as its ‘pocket diary’, reveals his narrow thinking and understanding.
Scindia said in his post on X on Monday night, “He has forgotten in the hunger for power and position that these royal families laid the foundation of equality and inclusive development in India years ago.”
Scindia, who left the Congress in 2020 and joined the BJP, said, “He has forgotten that: Baroda Maharaja Sayajirao Gaikwad provided financial assistance to our constitution maker Babasaheb Ambedkar to get education. Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj in 1902 For the first time, the foundation of social justice was laid by giving 50 percent reservation to Bahujans in his rule. “
The BJP leader said that Madhav Maharaj I of Gwalior had opened education and employment centers in the entire Gwalior-Chambal to strengthen the backward classes educationally. He alleged that it was the Congress that gave birth to the dictatorial ideology and attacked the rights of Dalits, underprivileged and backward classes.
Scindia said, “Rahul Gandhi, read history first, then give a statement!”
Pawan Kheda, the head of the Congress’s Media and Publicity Department, retaliated at Scindia, saying, “History raises a finger on you and cries Maharaj. If the 26th amendment of the Constitution had not been done then even today the Government of India Gwalior royal family (25 in 1950, 00,000) would have been paying tax -free crores of rupees. “
Kheda said in his post written in Hindi on X on Tuesday, “You kept taking this price of merger in India till 1971. You may have forgotten the betrayal of the royal houses and their love for the British, but we cannot forget all . “
The Congress leader said that history is a witness that a royal family’s pistol was used in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation. Kheda said that the list of misdeeds of many royal families cannot be fulfilled by the goodness of some kings.
He claimed, “(Jawaharlal) Nehru and (Vallabhbhai) Patel to pressurize the kings and princes and hand over the reins of democracy to the common citizens is still in some royal houses.”
Kheda quoted the speech made by Nehru in the Constituent Assembly on 22 January 1947.
Nehru was quoted as saying, “For any person, no matter how high his level is, it is very disgusting that I have come to rule the human race on the basis of the privilege provided by God. This idea is unbearable and is unbearable and This gathering will never accept it. If this matter is presented before the meeting, it will also strongly oppose it. “
According to Kheda, earlier the Prime Minister had said, “We have heard a lot about the divine rights of the kings. We had read about it in history and thought that now the idea of divine right is over. It is over. Was given. If any person in India or elsewhere talks about this divine right, then his discussion is completely inconsistent with the current state of India. “
Taking a sarcasm at Scindia, Kheda also heard a few lines of a famous poem by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan written on the queen of Jhansi. In the poem, Scindia is described as a friend of the British.
Scindia stayed in the Congress for a long time and was considered a close aide of Gandhiji. He left the party and joined the BJP in 2020 after differences in his home state Madhya Pradesh, especially in his home state Madhya Pradesh, causing the Congress government led by the then Kamal Nath.
