New Delhi, Jan 3 (PTI) The BJP asked the Congress on Friday to stop reading the Nehru-Gandhi family’s history book and learn the country’s “true history” from a book that has chapters on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, V D Savarkar, Subhas Chandra Bose and Syama Prasad Mookerjee, among many others.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, former Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the Congress, during its rule, named “thousands of” educational institutions in the country after former prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
“If the Congress is so interested, it can give us suggestions and we will change the names of two-three institutions named after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
“If it gives suggestions, we will definitely reach out to the government (requesting it) to rename two-three institutions after (former prime ministers) P V Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh,” Chandrasekhar said, when asked for his comments over some Congress leaders slamming the BJP over naming two upcoming Delhi University (DU) campuses and a college after Savarkar.
