Aurangzeb Row: Sanjay Raut targets the government on the Aurangzeb controversy, 'You have set up new corpses to lay...':

Sanjay Raut On Aurangzeb Grave Row: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Friday (March 21) cornered the Central and Maharashtra governments in the Rajya Sabha over the ongoing dispute over Aurangzeb's grave. He said that after Manipur, Maharashtra is burning and riots are taking place in Nagpur. He accused the Home Ministry of turning the country into a police state in the last few years.

Participating in the discussion on the functioning of the Home Ministry in the Rajya Sabha, Raut accused the government that forces trying to destabilise the country are repeatedly taking the name of Aurangzeb, which includes ministers of the Maharashtra government and people holding senior positions in the central government.

'You dug up old dead bodies to make room for new ones'

Uddhav faction leader Sanjay Raut further said, "To lay new corpses, you have dug up old graves and that too in the name of Aurangzeb. It is history that in three hundred years, there was never a riot in Nagpur. Riots happen in a city like Nagpur and that too in the constituency of our Maharashtra Chief Minister. I want to say that if you want to break Aurangzeb's grave, then do it, who is stopping you? You have a government in the Centre and Maharashtra. You go with a shovel and break it."

People are discussing Aurangzeb in the House- Raut

He also said, "We are discussing the work of the Home Ministry but I see that many of our members discussed Aurangzeb. What times have come that people are discussing Aurangzeb in the House and I hold the Home Ministry responsible for this. It is the job of the Home Ministry to maintain unity and integrity in the country but I see that for the past few years this country has been turned into a police state. Their job is to weaken the opposition and break political parties."