Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that we should stop making a hue and cry about history distortions, and students should research our actual history. 

“Till when we will make a hue and cry about what others have written about our history and distortions in it. Students of our country should research our actual history,” the Home Minister said in an interview with PTI.

The Home Minister further said that he has appealed to students to “study 300 Jannayak (people’s heroes) who were not given their due by historians and thirty such empires who ruled in India and established a very good model of governance. It is time that people and students study the real history of the country.”

Earlier on November 24,  Shah said, “I often come across complaints that our history has been distorted and tampered with. These allegations could be true. But who stops it from being corrected now? Who stops us from writing the correct history now.”

Shah also urged the state governments to promote education in Hindi or regional languages in technical, medical, and law fields so that the country can utilise the talent of non-English speaking students.

“Technical, medical, and law – all should be taught in Hindi and regional languages. All state governments should take initiative to properly translate the curriculum of these three fields of education into regional languages,” Shah said in the interview.

“It will promote the country’s talent in higher education. Today we can use only five percent of the country’s talent but with this initiative, we would be able to use hundred percent talent of the country,” he added. 

“It is that maulik chintan (original thinking) of a student can be easily developed in his mother tongue and there is a strong connection between maulik chintan and anusandhan (research),” Shah stated in the interview.