Amid the row over NCERT reportedly dropping certain chapters on Mughal history from class 12 textbooks, Assam BJP MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi has sparked an issue by allegedly in search of the demolition of Taj Mahal and Qutub Minar. In movies being broadly circulated on-line, Kurmi purportedly calls for an investigation into whether or not Mughal emperor Shah Jahan ‘truly loved’ his spouse Mumtaz.

He additionally requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to construct temples to interchange the 2 Mughal-era monuments. The Mariani MLA additionally introduced that he’s keen to donate a 12 months’s wage for the temple building.

“I urge the Prime Minister to immediately demolish the Taj Mahal and Qutub Minar. In place of these two monuments, the world’s most beautiful temples should be built. The architecture of those two temples should be such that no other monuments could be even closer to them.”

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Questioning why the seventeenth century king married three extra instances after the loss of life of Mumtaz, he claimed that one of many seven wonders of the world was constructed with the wealth of Hindu royalty.

“In the year 1526, Mughals came to India and later made Taj Mahal. Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal with the money taken from Hindu Kings and that was our money. He made Taj Mahal for his fourth wife. He married seven wives and Mumtaz was the fourth wife. If he loved Mumtaaz so much, then why did he marry more wives later,” stated Kurmi.

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Speaking to information company ANI, the four-time MLA asserted that Taj Mahal, broadly thought-about as a sworn statement to like, is ‘not a symbol of love’.

NCERT row

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has been receiving criticism from the opposition 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 science and historical past textbooks. The Indian Express was the primary to report the deletions from the revised textbooks printed for the educational 12 months 2023-24. HT had reported that the NCERT dropped matters associated to ‘Kings and Chronicles: The Mughal courts’ from the historical past ebook ‘Themes of Indian History-Part II’.

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NCERT director Dinesh Prasad Saklani stated the changes were made based on the recommendations of subject experts and never for any political issues, however he admitted that the main points of the excluded parts could have, by oversight, not been talked about in a listing of rationalised matters launched final June.