Wiki entries row: Congress asks whether NIC is carrying on sangh parivar's propaganda

Demanding an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the mischievous changes that were made in the Wikipedia pages of Jawaharlal Nehru and his forefathers, the Congress Party on Wednesday asked whether the National Informatics Centre (NIC) is now engaged in a sinister attempt to convert lineage of the country's first prime minister and carry on with the propaganda of the sangh parivar.

Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said the Prime Minister must initiate corrective measures in this regard and added that a criminal case must be lodged under the necessary provisions of the IT Act and the Indian Penal Code.

"There was an attempt to alter the Wikipedia pages of first prime minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, former president of Indian National Congress and his father Pandit Motilal Nehru and his father Pandit Gangadhar Nehru...What makes the case even worse that this was done from a government ID. What is even more intriguing and sinister is the fact that this attempt was done not only from a government ID and Internet Protocol with government address but was done from NIC, the National Informatics Centre or the software solution provider of Government of India," said Surjewala.

"Indian National Congress demands that on one hand Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is launching digital India, on the other hand agency responsible for digital India is altering the lineage of the first prime minister of India, former Congress presidents and their ancestors. Will Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi answer to the nation how was Internet Protocol ID of Government of India and NIC was being used for this sinister malicious attempt. Will Prime Minister and the minister in-charge answer whether such a sinister attempt was being made with their consent and concurrence," he added.

A software, which tracks anonymous Wikipedia edits has found that mischievous changes were made to the entries on Jawaharlal Nehru and his forefathers on June 26.

According to reports, the revisions, which originated from a Government of India IP (Internet Protocol) address, said that Nehru's grandfather Gangadhar Nehru was a Muslim.