Not rewriting history but correcting facts: Kiren Rijiju
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, April 27 2022:
With apparent reference to outcries against recent policies and programmes of the government of India, Union minister for law and justice Kiren Rijiju has asserted that it is not about rewriting history but is about correcting the facts.
Addressing an event 'Unsung Freedom Fighters of North East India' organised by a group of north-eastern students of Delhi University and Youth United for Vision and Action (YUVA) at the University of Delhi's conference hall, the Union minister said that the history, which all of us have been reading since independence, especially about the freedom struggle gives only limited knowledge about the incidents and sacrifices, thus bringing the true and real history to the knowledge of the young generation of the country, is important.
"When we want to say right things and try to mention truth in Indian history, some people get hurt and they say you are rewriting history.
The question is not about rewriting the history, the question is about correcting the history and the question is about the place and position of those people, who deserve it.
"This debate about history being written again is meaningless, the question is that we should learn true and real history because we know what we read and understand what we see," said Rijiju.
The statement from the Union minister has come at a time when changes made in the CBSE curriculum have created a political row.
A certain portion of the NCERT books like the chapter on "Democracy and Diversity", "Mughal Courts' and poems by Faiz Ahmad Faiz have been dropped from the Class X, XI and XII syllabi as part of the rationalisation process as per the recommendations of the NCERT.
The first woman Rajya Sabha MP representing Nagaland S Phangnon Konyak; DU dean of colleges Prof Balram Pani and JNU assistant professor Dr Phirmi Bodo also addressed the gathering.
The life stories of unsung freedom fighters like Rani Gaidinliu, Kanaklata Barua, Shambodan Phongio, Ropuiliani, Matmur Jamoh, Maharaja Kulachandra, Shaheed Jadonang, U Tirot Singh, etc., were remembered by the speakers.
The role played by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in leading INA in Northeast India was also discussed at the event.