RSS supports BJP move to write Rajasthan villages' history

Jaipur, Jan 3 (UNI) The RSS has supported the Rajasthan government's decision to write the history of the state's villages and towns, which otherwise has drawn flak from Opposition Congress party.

Speaking at a press conference here today Rajasthan's RSS incharge (Services Wing) Moolchand Soni said the British rulers created many anomalies while writing the history of India, which should be rectified.

''RSS supports the state government's plan which can remove the errors created by the Britishers and later by historians,'' he said, adding, ''RSS already has Itihaas Sankalan Samiti (History Compilation Committee) which monitors the history and checks the error which may have crept into it.'' The project titled 'Aapni Dharti Aapni Log' would include writing and sometimes rewriting the history of Rajasthan's 41,000 villages and 186 towns.

The Opposition Congress have targeted the government saying it is a divisive move holding the potential of creating divisions at the village level among various communities and religious groups.

The project would also scrutinise the errors in Colonel James Todd's 'Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan' and rewrite portions, adding a Hindu touch, the Opposition said.

However, Education Minister Ghanshyam Tiwari who announced the project on New Year eve, has emphasised that Todd only wrote about kings and royalty of Rajasthan and did not touch upon the history of villages.

This project would include details like village origin, population, caste groups, local heros, freedom fighters etc, which would be collected by 50,000 teachers, and the state government would complete it despite opposition from various quarters.

UNI