Mumbai, Jan. 4: Taking on NCP MLA and former state minister Jitendra Awhad, Nitesh Rane has said that the remarks of the former were but natural as the NCP leader’s top leadership has already sung paeans to the Mughal ruler.
It may be recalled that Mr Ahwad had said that “Aurangzeb was cruel but was not a Hindu hater as had he been so, he would have destroyed the temples of Vishnu as well”. Awhad’s statement came after Maharashtra leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar had said in the Assembly that Maratha king Sambhaji had never upheld dharma or religion in his life.
Attacking NCP leadership, Nitiesh Rane said, “Following the footsteps of his uncle, even the nephew believes that Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj was not a ‘dharmaveer’. These leaders have never visited Raigarh to pay tributes to the founder of ‘Hindavi Swaraj’.
“Though Aurangzeb tortured Sambhaji Maharaj forcing him to convert, the Chhatrapati did not budge even an inch and sacrificed his life for Hindus,” Rane added in the letter addressed to Mr. Awhad.
The BJP MLA has also attached a list of various temples destroyed by Aurangzeb in the letter and said that he is aware of the fact that this truth will also be ignored by Mr. Awhad due to his blind faith in the Mughal empire.
The temples destroyed by Aurangzeb, as pointed out by Mr. Rane, are Somnath temple, Krishna Janmabhoomi temple, Kashi Vishwanath temple, Vishweshwar temple, Govinddeo temple, Vijay temple, Bhimadevi temple, Madan Mohan temple, Choushathyogini temple, Elora temple, Trimbakeshwar temple, Narshingpur temple, and Pandharpur temple.
Mr. Rane said that he has listed only 13 major temples destroyed by the Mughal ruler. Besides them, several other small temples were also destroyed.
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