Other posters will have Nehru’s image, unnecessary controversy over issue: ICHR official

Dealing with flak from opposition events for excluding Jawaharlal Nehru from a poster celebrating the seventy fifth 12 months of independence, the Indian Council of Historic Analysis (ICHR) stated the controversy over the problem is “pointless” as different posters being launched within the coming days will function Nehru. “We aren’t making an attempt to undermine anybody’s function within the motion,” a prime ICHR official stated, dismissing criticism on the problem, and added the poster was one of many many launched as a part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations.

ICHR, an autonomous physique below the Ministry of Schooling, has been working a collection of lectures and seminars on the theme of the Independence battle below the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebration.

“That is solely one of many posters launched as a part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations. There will probably be a number of others and Nehru will probably be featured in them… controversy round that is pointless,” the ICHR official informed PTI.

As a part of the lecture collection, the council has invited numerous historians and academicians to talk on completely different subjects associated to India’s freedom motion.

Opposition events had focused the federal government for the exclusion of the picture of the nation’s first prime minister from the poster and instructed that it had been carried out intentionally.

Jairam Ramesh, Shashi Tharoor and Pawan Khera had been among the many Congress leaders, who took to social media and shared the screenshot of the ICHR web site exhibiting pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh, B R Ambedkar, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Rajendra Prasad, Madan Mohan Malviya and Veer Savarkar whereas Nehru’s image was lacking.

Congress chief P Chidambaram on Sunday hit out on the ICHR, accusing it of bowing to hate and prejudice, and requested whether or not it could omit Henry Ford whereas celebrating the beginning of the motor automobile or Wright brothers whereas celebrating the beginning of aviation.