Congress MP Abdul Khaleque from Assam said he is proud of the Mughals as they gave the shape of ‘Hindustan’
Speaking to the media Khaleque said, “The perception of Hindustan was made by the Mughals. There were small states in Bharat. Mughals shaped them together as Hindustan. So I am proud of the Mughals. But I am not a successor of the Mughal dynasty. It is true that the Mughals had attacked Assam (Ahom kingdom) but that was done individually. At that time Mughals were ruling over the Hindustan.”
Meanwhile, Barpeta MP said the Ahom army had defeated the Mughals and at the time it was a conflict between India and Assam.
“But today, Assam is an integral part of India. The situation is completely different now,” Assam MP said.
Moreover, 10 Vidhan Sabha seats fall under MP’s parliamentary constituency of which seven were part of the Ahom kingdom at that time and three were the Koch kingdom.
The Barpeta MP further stated that the Battle of Saraighat was not a conflict between Hindus and Muslims more or else it was a battle between the King of Hindustan and the Ahom dynasty.
MP Abdul Khaleque slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party and said, “It is BJP’s policy to spread hatred. They say they will rewrite history. It means they want to change history.”
On the concept of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s Akhand Bharat, the Congress MP said, “I also want Akhand Bharat. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee used to say about Akhand Bharat but he divided Bengal. Mughal Badshah Bahadur Shah Zafar had given his leadership in the struggle for independence.”
However, the Khaleque statement came when the names of many Mughal period places names have been changed. Earlier in 2018 Allahabad’s name was renamed Prayagraj and Mughalsarai was renamed Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar.