New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging that party changed history in NCERT textbooks.

Owaisi said, "This BJP has changed the NCERT syllabus, held Muslims responsible for the partition, we are not responsible for the partition..."

The AIMIM chief claimed that Vinayak Damodar Savarkar "was the first to raise the slogan of partition, Mountbatten is responsible for the partition, the Congress government of that time is responsible, how are we responsible for the partition?..."

"You have also removed from NCERT the reason why Mahatma Gandhi was killed by Godse...," Owaisi said.

This came after NCERT introduced new modules on the Part...