SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav’s trusted aide & Senior Leader Rajya Sabha Member faces backlash for calling Rajput ruler Rana Sanga a ‘traitor’.
Suman on March 21 said on the floor of the House, “Indian Muslims do not consider Babur their idol. They follow Prophet Muhammad and the Sufi tradition. But I want to ask, who brought Babur here? It was Rana Sanga who invited Babur to defeat Ibrahim Lodi. So, if Muslims are called the descendants of Babur, then Hindus must be the descendants of traitor Rana Sanga. We criticise Babur, but why don’t we criticise Rana Sanga?”
Sanga who was from the Sisodia clan of Suryavanshi Rajputs ruled Mewar from 1508 to 1528. He led a Rajput alliance against Babur, losing the Battle of Khanwa to him. It was a decisive moment that solidified the hold of the Mughal empire.
After the Suman’s remarks, rightwing outfits such as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Karni Sena targeted the SP MP while Jodhpur MP & Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat of the BJP said only a person with “trivial intellect” and a “small heart” could have made such comments.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav defended him on Sunday, saying, “Everyone is flipping through the pages of history. Ask BJP leaders which pages they are turning. What are they debating? They want to talk about Aurangzeb. If Ramji Lal Suman ji has referred to a page in history that contains certain facts, then what’s the issue? We didn’t write history 200 years ago.”
