Lord Ram and Krishna part of our heritage, not Babur and Aurangzeb: Ravi Shankar Prasad

“Electricity of all newspaper houses were cut. Censor manoge to hum manenge (it will be restored when you accept censorship). We will appreciate The Indian Express and Ramnath Goenka because he did not accept (censorship) and remained firm.”

Prasad said that the original Constitution had photographs of Lord Ram returning to Ayodhya with Sita and Laxman after victory in Lanka, photos of Lord Krishna, Bajrangbali Hanuman, Mahavir, Natraja, Guru Gobind Singh, Chhatrapati Shivaji and Akbar, but not Babur and Aurangzeb. “If the Constitution was framed today, the Opposition would have protested the insertion of such pictures in it,” he said.

Prasad said, “Our heritage is Lord Ram, Krishna, Ramkrishna Paramahansa, Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghosh, Lokmanya Tilak, Narayana Guru, Subramania Bharati and Mahatma Gandhi. Aurangzeb, Babur could never be our heritage.”

Congress MP Kumari Selja said: “There is a conversation about the Emergency. Yes, it happened… And there were injustices… no one is denying that. An election happened and Congress and Indira Gandhi were thrown out. This is the beauty of our democracy that the same Indira Gandhi again became the PM in 1980.”

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