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Vivek Agnihotri flays historian Irfan Habib for his dig at Amit Shah's surname

Vivek Agnihotri flays historian Irfan Habib for his dig at Amit Shah's surname

Nov 13, 2018, at 09:31 am

Kolkata, Nov 13 (IBNS): Noted historian Irfan Habib has ignited a fresh controversy when he took a dig at the renaming of Indian cities by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by picking the surname of BJP president Amit Shah himself. However, BJP sympathisers hit back with filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri tweeting the inherent bias in historians to ignore Indians while extolling the conquerers of the land.