Thiruvananthapuram, March 28 -- Reacting to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's statements that 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' and 'Jai Hind' were first raised by two Muslims, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said that our country's history is much more complicated than the black-and-white versions that someone in the "BJP or Hindutva movement would like you to believe".

The Congress MP echoed similar sentiments and said, "The fact is that we used to be a country where such distinctions did not matter so much, where indeed someone like Netaji Bose had amongst his closest aides people of every faith. He was accompanied by a Muslim Colonel in the fatal plane crash. That is the gentleman who had coined the phrase 'Jai Hind' for him."

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