Just as other statements and ‘sins’ of Congress are being unearthed on social media especially after the release of the film Dhurandhar 2: The Revenge, in yet another controversy has emerged, this time involving past remarks by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.
A viral video of a news clipping of the then-Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh, Rahul Gandhi’s closest political strategist and the party’s primary communications chief, comparing the founding figures of undivided India to the Hindu Trinity and placing Mohammad Ali Jinnah in the role of Lord Shiva, the Destroyer, has ignited fresh outrage across the country.
What He Said
The news clipping from 2009 indicates that Ramesh stated: “Who were the Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva of undivided India? Brahma was Gandhi – he created the nation. Vishnu was Nehru – he preserved the nation. And Shiva was Jinnah – he destroyed the nation.”
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Not the First Time: Congress’s Jinnah Problem
This statement did not emerge in a vacuum. The Congress party has a long and documented history of attempting to reinterpret or soften Jinnah’s image, with some leaders framing Partition as a mutually arrived outcome rather than solely as Jinnah’s communal project. Jairam Ramesh’s Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva analogy stands out as one of the more striking iterations of this pattern.
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