KOLHAPUR: Lok Sabha LoP and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday that our education system does not talk about the history of individuals with skills, capability and experience, and hence, education is not possible without history and understanding of our own space and location.
These remarks came when he was speaking about his meeting with a potter, Swapnil Kumhar, while addressing ‘Samvidhan Samman Sammelan’ in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra. “If you see the OBC community, as I shook hands with Swapnil Kumhar, who gave me an idol, with the contact itself, I understood that this hand has skill. Those hands which have the skill, people make him sit behind. It is happening 24 hours in India.
“Our education system does not have the history of individuals with skills, capability and experience nor they are talked about. There is no history of about happened with them or the discrimination they faced. I have never read the history of Dalits, backwards in school. Today, it’s even opposite, the history of them that is there is being removed from books. Without history, without the understanding of own space and location, education is not possible”, he said.
Months after a controversy erupted after the collapse of a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Maharashtra’s Malvan, Rahul Gandhi also unveiled a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Kolhapur. Meanwhile, he also took a dig at the BJP and said that they are trying to destroy the Constitution by standing against the ideology of ‘Shivaji Maharaj’.
He further said that due to this difference of ‘intentions’, the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj made by them got broken. Taking it to a social media post on X, Rahul Gandhi wrote, “Shivaji Maharaj was an embodiment of courage, compassion and justice – Congress Party and INDIA are protecting the ideology of Shivaji Maharaj by following the path shown by him, because his thinking is embedded in the Constitution of India. BJP is trying to destroy the Constitution by standing against the same ideology. Due to this difference in intentions, even the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj made by them got broken and left them. I carry the thoughts of Shivaji Maharaj in my heart – I will continue to fight for the protection of the country’s constitution, institutions and the poor. Hail Bhavani, Hail Shivaji.”
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Kolhapur comes ahead of the Assembly elections in the state, scheduled for later this year. The 288 seats Maharashtra Assembly will go to polls later this year. The Election Commission of India has yet to announce the poll dates.
The upcoming Maharashtra election will see a contest between the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition, comprising the Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (Sharad Pawar faction), and Congress, and the Maha Yuti Alliance, which includes the BJP, Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction), and NCP (Ajit Pawar faction). (ANI)