Rahul Gandhi is surrounded by Chakravyuh, Anurag Thakur shuts him up after listening to Shashi Tharoor's 'Mahabharata'

From Jawahar to Indira, Tharoor's novel is under attack

Anurag Thakur cited three different pages of Tharoor's novel. On page number 245, he called the country's first Prime Minister and Rahul Gandhi's maternal grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru as Dhritarashtra. Thakur read this statement from the novel in the House, 'On 15 August 1947, India had already gone through the painful process of new birth under the leadership of Dhritarashtra and it was again caught in this endless cycle.' Thakur said that Modi ji was not the Prime Minister on 15 August 1947 and he is saying that the one who took power on 15 August 1947 was Dhritarashtra. So who was called Dhritarashtra?

Mention of The Great Indian Novel in Lok Sabha

The Union minister apprised the House of Tharoor's views on Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi by referring to page number 293 of the novel. Who was the person whom Tharoor called an opportunist socialist? He asked, “Who were these Fabian socialists, this has been written by none other than your own MP. It also discusses the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.” Then referring to the seventh chapter of the novel, he said that Siddharth Shankar Ray has been referred to as Shakuni in it. Congress leader Siddharth Shankar Ray was the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

Even the Kauravas did not impose emergency: Anurag

After this, Thakur referred to page number 366 of the novel. He said that during the Emergency, freedom of the press was taken away, fundamental rights were abolished, freedom of expression was abolished. He said that both Dushasan and Duryodhan could have been very evil, enemies and scoundrels, but they never imposed emergency. The Union Minister said that in the entire novel, the Kauravas and the Kaurava party have been discussed 74 times, in each of these, the character of Congress is reflected. Rahul ji was telling the story of Mahabharata of thousands of years ago in the House, but an educated scholar, former minister and MP of his own party, while writing the story of today's Mahabharata, tells who were the Kauravas, who was Shakuni, who was Dhritarashtra, who was Dushasan, who was Duryodhan, who was Karna. Do read it, you will find the characters of everyone in it.

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'The Kauravas of Congress tried very hard to surround today's Abhimanyu but they themselves got defeated'

Union Minister Anurag Thakur compared the Prime Minister to Abhimanyu of Mahabharata. He said that you have been trying to bring down Abhimanyu for the last 22 years, your warriors and your governments from Gujarat to Delhi have been dealt with, but you could not surround him, because he lives in the hearts of the people. Today there are 293 Abhimanyus sitting here. Even if you have a great warrior like Karna, a clever strategist like Shakuni, Dharma is with us. Even if you have Narayani Sena, but Lord Krishna himself is with us. Then he recited two lines of a hymn, 'Why worry if Shri Raghunath is with us, why worry when he has given us shelter.' Anurag Thakur said, 'Raghunath in the form of subjects is with us and he will be with us in the future too.'