Madhya Pradesh Higher Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar Tuesday said that an India sailor discovered the United States of America, the city of Beijing was designed with the help of an Indian architect who made statues of Lord Ram, and that those who wrote the Rigveda were the first to predict that the earth revolved around the sun.
Parmar made the comments while attending the convocation ceremony of Barkatullah university, alongside Governor Mangubhai C Patel and Chief Minister Mohan Yadav.
Parmar said that “historians systematically undermined India’s strengths”, and because of “false facts, a negative image of India was presented to the world”.
He said that our “ancestors were advanced in every aspect of knowledge, skill, and capability”, and “we should free ourselves from inferiority complexes and strive to advance by embracing superior ideas”.
According to him, a “falsehood that was unnecessarily taught in India was that Columbus discovered America”.
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