मनु स्मृति पर गांधी और नेहरू के विचार!!
India is governed by its Constitution, not the Manusmriti. The Constitution of India was framed by the Constituent Assembly under the chairmanship of Babasaheb Dr B. R. Ambedkar and is the supreme law of our Republic. Yet Rahul Gandhi repeatedly misquotes and selectively invokes the Manusmriti to peddle an anti-Hindu narrative. What makes this even more ironic is that he seems not to know what Mahatma Gandhi and his own great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru actually said about Manu and the Manusmriti. On 4 May 1928, Gandhi wrote to P. T. Pillay: “I do not regard Manusmriti as an evil. It contains much that is admirable, but in its present form it undoubtedly contains many things that are bad and these appear to be interpolations. Whilst a reformer would therefore treasure all excellent things in that ancient code, he would expurgate all that is injurious or of doubtful value.” Reference: M. K. Gandhi, Letter to P. T. Pillay, 4 May 1928, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 36, Lett...