M Nageswara Rao under fire from Left for ‘speaking truth’

New Delhi, July 31: Former CBI Director and serving IPS officer M Nageswara Rao is the new target of the Leftist leaders now for ‘speaking truth’ about the distortion of the Indian History and the role the Left and Muslim leaders played in that process. Rao tweeted a couple of days ago how the Left and Muslim scholars distorted the Hindu history during the first thirty years of Independence.  

Senior Communist Party leader Brinda Karat has written to Home Minister Amit Shah demanding action against Rao for ‘violation of service rules’.

In her letter Karat alleged that Rao’s observations regarding the role of the Left and Muslim scholars in distorting Hindu history violated the spirit of the Constitution and were politically motivated to incite the communal feelings.

The Communists believed, wrongly though, that Indian History was their domain and considered them as the only ‘experts’ in the subject. Therefore, IPS Rao’s comments blaming the Left and Muslims like Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed for distortion of Hindu history came as a great shock to them.

The ex-CBI chief had pointed out how the former education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and his successors who remained in charge of the education portfolio for over 30 years, systematically distorted the history of Bharat. Rao had simply pointed out that the academic space which is patronized by the left leaders have always sidelined pro-Hindu nationalist scholars. Brinda Karat considered this comment as an attack on minorities.

She alleged that by pointing out the vilification of Hindu history in the education system has ‘insulted the heroic freedom fighter Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and other Muslim educationists “using derogatory language against them and inciting feelings of enmity between the two communities”.

Obviously, she then goes on accusing Rao of making politically motivated public statements for crediting the VHP and the RSS for ‘re-Hinduization’ of the Hindu society.

She then cast aspersions on Rao and said that his statements will make him eligible to join the BJP or the RSS after he retires from service on July 31. She then insisted that Rao, who tweeted this while being in service, must be charge-sheeted for violating the service rules and also prosecuted under the relevant sections of the IPC.

She also wrote to Delhi Police asking them to file an FIR against Rao under Sec 153A and 295A of the IPC. “Words, language, tenor and intention is to cause enmity and hostility between communities and to incite feelings of hatred against Muslims,” she said in her letter addressed to the Mandir Marg Police Station SHO, Delhi Police Commissioner and DCP, New Delhi.

“He has also referred to ‘left’ historians in the most derogatory terms,” she said in her letter urging the Delhi Police to file an FIR against him.