Union minister Kiren Rijiju. Image courtesy: Twitter

Guwahati: The Congress on Sunday slammed Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju over his article in which he blamed Nehru for โ€œrejecting Maharaja Hari Singhโ€™s accession request in July 1947โ€, and said he was โ€œthe latest entrant to the club of distoriansโ€.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, โ€œI spoke to a BJP ideologue this morning about Kiren Rijiju, the latest entrant to the club of Distorians. He sent me the following message:

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โ€œThe strange thing is, Nehru being vilified is one thing, Hari Singh being exalted as some sort of upright & benevolent hero takes the cake.โ€

Rijiju in his article wrote, โ€œThe first is to mark it as the 75th anniversary of Jammu and Kashmirโ€™s accession to India through the instrument of accession. Historically, this is correct. However, there is another, far more contextual and accurate way to look at this date. October 27 is the 75th anniversary of an important day in a series of Jawaharlal Nehruโ€™s greatest blunders, both before and after this date, that haunted India for the next seven decades.โ€

Recently, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked the issue of J&K and blamed Nehru, Congress was quick to respond. Even though PM Modi did not take the name of Nehru, Congress said Modi should check the facts first.

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The party blamed Maharaja Hari Singh, the then ruler of the J&K for not acceding to India soon after Independence, but took the decision only after invaders from Pakistan tried to take over the place.

Jairam Ramesh had cited Rajmohan Gandhiโ€™s book and said, โ€œThe PM has once again whitewashed REAL history. He overlooks the following facts only to castigate Nehru on J&K. All this has been documented well in Rajmohan Gandhiโ€™s biography of Sardar Patel. These facts are also known to the PMโ€™s new man in J&K.โ€