Former professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Mridula Mukherjee says that Prime Minister Modi was “economical with the truth” in his Vande Mataram speech in the Lok Sabha on Monday.

Modi accused Jawaharlal Nehru of removing stanzas from Vande Mataram under pressure to appease M.A. Jinnah and thus put the country on what the prime minister called the path of “appeasement politics” that ultimately led to partition. Mukherjee says Modi is guilty of “not placing facts on the table as they should be”.

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