Overview
- In a presser on August 16, Owaisi called Modi’s praise of the RSS “a great insult to our freedom struggle” because the organisation never joined major anti-British campaigns.
- He accused the RSS and BJP of systematically revising NCERT textbooks to exclude key facts, including Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s tenure in the Bengal cabinet.
- The AIMIM chief demanded NCERT incorporate Shamsul Islam’s Muslims Against Partition and denounced claims that Muslims were responsible for India’s 1947 Partition as “a lie.”
- Owaisi characterized the RSS’s Hindutva ideology as “completely against the Constitution” and warned that its historical narrative promotes exclusion over pluralism.
- He also raised a security concern, warning that India has lost access to 25 patrol points along the China border.