Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday blamed the Congress for partition,and twisting history. Modi,trying to find acceptability among minorities as he runs for prime minister,attacked the Congress saying partition changed not only geography,but also history of India. Inaugurating Reliable Hospital run by an all-Muslim Trust in newly formed taluka of Galteshwar in Balasinor,a Muslim-majority area,which used to be a Congress bastion,Modi was referring to the prime minister's statement in Chhattisgarh,in which he blamed the BJP for changing the geography of India. Mr Prime Minister,I want to know,who changed the geography of India so that your own village is not a part of India. who split India., he said referring to partition and Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs village where he was born,which is now in Pakistan. Why is China squatting at the doors of India? Geography of India is being changed even by the UPA government who wants to divert the historic Dandi Heritage Route by thirty kilometres, Modi said quoting from a Government of India letter to his office. He said,Six months back,your government wrote a letter to me suggesting that when building the Dandi heritage route,if we take a 30-km detour from the path walked by Mahatma Gandhi,it would be convenient; You abandoned Gandhi and now your are changing his path? You changed geography and you are giving lessons in history and geography. He said the Centre was still describing the 1857 Freedom Movement as mutiny in textbooks. He asked why the government had forgotten many of those imprisoned in Andaman and Nicobar in their fight for freedom. The official release of the function claimed a large gathering of Muslim families assembled from different parts of India and abroad on the occasion. Earlier,local MLA Devusinh Chauhan said,Muslims of the State have identified a true leader in Narendra Modi. Over the past 12 years,Gujarat as a Hindu-Muslim riot-free State has shown the right direction to Muslim community of the country. As of now,Muslims in Gujarat are happiest,most educated and prosperous. Reliable Hospital Trust Chairman Abdul Rashid Shaikh is an ex-serviceman. .mixes up history again Nava Roza: The Gujarat Chief Minister was red-faced at one stage when he mixed up revolutionary leader Shyamji Krishna Verma with the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee. Who twisted history? Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee established the India House right under the nose of the British in London. He had said,Take my ashes to a free India after my death. His ashes were in Geneva for 73 years. Pandit Nehru should have sent somebody to fetch them.the ashes came to India.Mr prime minister,this work you did not do,this was my good fortune. I went to Geneva and brought Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjees ashes on my shoulders), Modi repeated over and over again towards the end of his speech. When he was returning to his seat,Matar MLA Pankaj Desai and Minority Morcha president Mahebubali Bawa rushed to him and told him of the faux pas. A red-faced Modi returned to the mike to correct the mistake. ENS
