Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday tore into Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement that time has come to rewrite history of the country. Kumar said that the history of a country cannot be rewritten. Shah said, “Those who wrote the history explained the works of Mugal emperors which was not right. There were so many rulers like Pandyas, Ahoms, Pallavas, Mauruyas, Guptas, Sisodias of Mewar who ruled for more than 500 years and fought well for the country but reference texts were not written on them.”
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He made the state at a book launch event in New Delhi on Friday. Kumar said, “What is the need of writing history again? History is history and how we could change it? How could anyone change the fundamental history of the country?” Kumar’s statement could trigger another controversy in Bihar. Leaders of both the JD-U and the BJP are currently holding a truce after a spat in the recent past.
