‘How can anyone change history’, asks Nitish Kumar after Amit Shah’s Mughal dominance take

New Delhi, June 13

Days after Home Minister Amit Shah spoke of rewriting Indian history citing the pre-eminence of Mughals at the cost of Pandya, Chola, Maurya, Gupta and Ahom empires, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar wondered how anyone could rewrite history.

On the sidelines of an event in Patna on Monday, Kumar, whose JDU is the ruling NDA’s ally in the state, said, “History is history.”

Kumar was responding to a question about Shah’s remarks on the Mughal empire dominance in Indian history and the HM’s take that no one stop the incumbent government from correcting that imbalance and writing history afresh.

“Will you change history now? I cannot understand this. History is history whatever it is. How can anyone change history? It is there. What is driving these (read HM’s) statements I do not know. I do not think history is going to change,” Kumar said.

He said questioning the language structure of history writing is a different issue. “But how can anyone change fundamental history? No one can change it,” Bihar CM said.