Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha MP Anurag Thakur took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s statements on Mahabharata and Chakravyuh and said that some people are ‘accidental Hindus’ and their knowledge of Mahabharata is accidental too.
The BJP leader was speaking during the discussion on the budget in the monsoon session of Parliament when he took a swipe at the Leader of Opposition for his speech at the budget session in Parliament on July 29.
“At the very start of the Lok Sabha, I had asked whether the people of the opposition who were waving the copy of the Constitution in their hands, in the name of saving the Constitution, had any answer to the number of pages in it,” said Anurag Thakur.
“These people have neither read the Constitution nor the Mahabharata, but it is surprising that they have not even seen the Mahabharata; otherwise, they would have known that not 6 but 7 Maharathi were involved in the killing of Abhimanyu,” he said.
In an attack on Rahul Gandhi, Anurag Thakur said that if he has not seen or read the Mahabharata, then at least he should have read the novel, “The Great Indian Novel” by his MP Shashi Tharoor.
“If Rahul Ji wants to get detailed information about the Mahabharata and Chakravyuh, then he may connect with his party’s MP,” he said.
Adding further, he said, “In the said novel, whose leader has been termed ‘Dhritarashtra,’, whose party has been called ‘Kaurava’, and whose leader is ‘Priyadarshini’, Rahul ji must find these facts.”
Anurag Thakur, while reading Shashi Tharoor’s ‘The Great Indian Novel’ in the Lok Sabha, said that Narendra Modi was not the Prime Minister on 15 August 1947 and he (Shashi Tharoor) is saying that the person who took power in 1947 was Dhritarashtra.
BJP MP Anurag Thakur did not stop there. He also mentioned the Emergency imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.-TIN Bureau