'Amit Shah has habit of rewriting history': Rahul Gandhi's retort after BJP targets Jawaharlal Nehru

"Pandit Nehru gave his life for India, he was in jail for years. Amit Shah is unaware of history. I cannot expect him to know history, he has the habit of rewriting it," Rahul Gandhi told reporters outside parliament today.

"It is just a way of distracting people from real issues," said Gandhi, who is the great-grandson of Nehru.

Hours after the Supreme Court backed the Centre's move to scrap Article 370 and end special status to Jammu and Kashmir four years ago, Amit Shah blamed Jawaharlal Nehru for "two major blunders" declaring a ceasefire in a war with Pakistan and taking the Kashmir issue to the United Nations.

"If there was no untimely ceasefire (during the war with Pakistan), there wouldn't have been a PoK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir). Our country was winning, had he (Nehru) waited for two days, the entire Kashmir would have been ours," said Shah.

"People say if not for Nehru, there would have been no Kashmir. People who know history, I want to ask them, Hyderabad faced a bigger problem, did Nehru go there? Did Nehru go to Lakshadweep, Junagarh or Jodhpur? He only used to go to Kashmir and even there he left the job unfinished," the Union Minister said.

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the central government's historic 2019 move to scrap Article 370 withdrawing the special status of Jammu and Kashmir is "valid", media reports said.

A five-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, hearing the pleas challenging the revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, said Article 370 was a temporary provision that was meant to facilitate the region's merger with India.

The Supreme Court has also ordered the Election Commission of India to hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir by Sept 30, 2024.