Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday introduced the life-size statuary of Maharana Pratap in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar area.
PTI reported that while talking at the occasion, he claimed that Maharana Pratap and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj are nationwide heroes and not Mughal leader Aurangzeb.
“Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj drew inspiration from Maharana Pratap, especially for guerilla warfare tactics,” the Union Minister specified.
According to PTI, Singh additionally affirmed that message-Independence, chroniclers with Left leanings did not provide due credit scores to both Maharana Pratap and Shivaji Maharaj however eulogised Aurangzeb.
#WATCH|Defence Minister Rajnath Singh introduces a statuary of Maharana Pratap and commemorates him at Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar
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“Those who feel that Aurangzeb was a hero should have read Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who wrote that the Mughal emperor was a cruel, fundamentalist ruler,” he claimed.
Maharana Pratap compromised his life to maintain his dignity and tested the supremacy of Mughal Emperor Akbar, Singh specified, according to PTI.
Apart from his excellent fearlessness, Maharana Pratap joined all areas of culture, the support preacher claimed, including that tribals and Muslims were additionally a component of his military.
“Hakim Khan Suri sacrificed his life in the battle of Haldighati, fighting against the Mughals. A Muslim youth was Shivaji Maharaj`s bodyguard,” specified Singh.
Those that eulogize Aurangzeb disrespect the Muslims, the preacher included.
Earlier in the day, Singh was obtained at the airport terminal by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
During his check out, he additionally attended to sector agents in the area and ensured them that the federal government is devoted to make the nation autonomous in the support market and has actually currently taken a number of action in this instructions.
Singh additionally declared that India’s support exports have actually increased from Rs 600 crore in 2014 to Rs 24,000 crore.
“Our target is to achieve [exports worth] Rs 50,000 crore by 2029-30,” he claimed.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)- led federal government has actually taken a number of significant actions to attain self-sufficiency and proclaimed products that will certainly be indigenously made and not imported, he kept in mind, including that the support manufacturing goes to Rs 1.60 lakh crore today and the purpose is to boost it to Rs 3 lakh crore.
Singh claimed that Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar has an excellent possibility to come to be a manufacturing center.
“You have a mature industrial ecosystem here. Come to me with concrete proposals,” he informed sector agents.
(With PTI inputs)
