Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Monday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks against former PM Jawaharlal Nehru during the Parliamentary debate over the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram, calling him the “master of distortion”.

In an X post, Jairam Ramesh targeted the BJP by Invoking Bharatiya Jan Sangh’s founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s coalition with AK Fazlul Haq in Bengal before Independence, and former Deputy PM LK Advani’s visit to Pakistan’s first Governor General Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s mausoleum in Karachi.

“Nehru is being accused of appeasement. But will the PM–the Master Distorian– answer: Which Indian leader formed a coalition in Bengal in the early 1940s with the person who moved the Pakistan resolution in Lahore in March 1940? It was Syama Prasad Mookerjee. W

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