New Delhi: Amid the row surrounding the inauguration of the new parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, another controversy has surfaced regarding the historic ‘sengol‘ sceptre. Following Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s Wednesday announcement about the sengol being placed beside the chair of the Lok Sabha Speaker in the new Parliament building, the BJP had criticised the Congress for allegedly displaying disdain towards Hindu traditions by calling the ‘sengol’ a “golden stick” gifted to India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru and tucking it away in a museum.
The Congress has, in turn, said that there is no documented evidence of Lord Mountbatten, C. Rajagopalachari, and Nehru having described the sengol as a symbol of transfer of power from the British to India, as claimed by the BJP.
In light of this, Home Minister Amit Shah took to Twitter Friday to criticise the Congress party’s claims and for reducing the sengol to a mere “walking stick”.
Why does the Congress party hate Indian traditions and culture so much? A sacred Sengol was given to Pandit Nehru by a holy Saivite Mutt from Tamil Nadu to symbolize India’s freedom but it was banished to a museum as a ‘walking stick’.
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) May 26, 2023
Earlier in the day, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh had tweeted that “All claims to this effect are plain and simple — BOGUS (sic). Wholly and completely manufactured in the minds of a few and dispersed into WhatsApp, and now to the drum-beaters in the media.”
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