Amid the row over NCERT reportedly losing positive chapters on Mughal records from magnificence 12 textbooks, Assam BJP MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi has sparked a problem via way of means of allegedly in search of the demolition of Taj Mahal and Qutub Minar. In motion pictures being broadly circulated online, Kurmi purportedly needs an research into whether or not Mughal emperor Shah Jahan `surely cherished` his spouse Mumtaz.
He additionally asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to construct temples to update the 2 Mughal-technology monuments. The Mariani MLA additionally introduced that he’s inclined to donate a 12 months`s profits for the temple construction.
“I urge the Prime Minister to without delay demolish the Taj Mahal and Qutub Minar. In location of those monuments, the arena`s maximum stunning temples ought to be constructed. The structure of these temples ought to be such that no different monuments can be even towards them.”
Questioning why the seventeenth century king married 3 extra instances after the dying of Mumtaz, he claimed that one of the seven wonders of the arena turned into constructed with the wealth of Hindu royalty.
“In the 12 months 1526, Mughals got here to India and later made Taj Mahal. Shah Jahan constructed Taj Mahal with the cash taken from Hindu Kings and that turned into our cash. He made Taj Mahal for his fourth spouse. He married seven better halves and Mumtaz turned into the fourth spouse. If he cherished Mumtaaz so much, then why did he marry extra better halves later,” stated Kurmi.
Speaking to information enterprise ANI, the four-time MLA asserted that Taj Mahal, broadly taken into consideration as an affidavit to love, is `now no longer a image of love`.
NCERT row
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has been receiving complaint from the competition leaders over the alleged elimination of references to `dislike of Hindu extremists for Mahatma Gandhi`s pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity` and banning of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) from the brand new Class 12 political technology and records textbooks. The Indian Express turned into the primary to record the deletions from the revised textbooks posted for the instructional 12 months 2023-24. HT had said that the NCERT dropped subjects associated to `Kings and Chronicles: The Mughal courts` from the records book `Themes of Indian History-Part II`.
NCERT director Dinesh Prasad Saklani stated the modifications have been made primarily based totally at the guidelines of concern specialists and now no longer for any political considerations, however he admitted that the information of the excluded quantities may also have, via way of means of oversight, now no longer been cited in a listing of rationalised subjects launched remaining June.
