Overview
- Outside Parliament’s Makar Dwar, Jairam Ramesh gave Rajnath Singh photocopies of Maniben Patel’s diary entries in Gujarati along with a Hindi translation.
- Singh replied that he does not read Gujarati and said the BJP already has an English version.
- Congress says the entries do not mention Jawaharlal Nehru seeking public funds to build the Babri Masjid and has demanded an apology from the defence minister.
- BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi cites the book Inside Story of Sardar Patel: Diary of Maniben Patel, claiming a passage records Patel rejecting government money for a mosque after Nehru raised the matter.
- Ramesh identifies the cited entries as pages 212–213 of the 2025 Gujarati volume Samarpit Padchhayo Sardarno and has posted screenshots on X to rebut Singh’s remarks from his Vadodara speech last week.