Watch Prakash Javadekar's blooper: HRD Minister says Nehru & Patel were hanged

Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar has come under fire for saying that Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel were hanged by British.

"The struggle that began in 1987.. went on for 90 years... we threw away British... Netaji SC Bose, Sardar Patel, Pandit Nehru, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, were all hanged... Krantivir Savarkar, other freedom fighters took the bullet," said Javadekar addressing a public meeting in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara.

Javadekar has been severely criticised for getting history wrong as Sardar Patel died in 1950 while Nehru died in 1964. In the declassified files, a Union Cabinet note said that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had died in an air crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945, amidst raging controversy over the INA chief's mysterious disappearance.

#WATCH HRD Min Prakash Javadekar says "SC Bose, Sardar Patel, Nehru, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru sabhi phaansi par chade"https://t.co/JSgXjcVmAm

— ANI (@ANI_news) August 23, 2016

So our dear minister @PrakashJavdekar calls Chacha Nehru, Sardar Patel & Netaji Bose as SHAHEED. Wonderful! @PMOIndia Pls train them well!

— Arun Shenoy (@ShenoyArun) August 23, 2016

History being re written with some salt and saffronisation, @PrakashJavdekar aap kripaya apne gyan par prakash daale https://t.co/6DXNfVyE5Z

— Narendra makwana (@Narendramakwan1) August 23, 2016

मोदी सरकार के शिक्षा मंत्री ने मध्यप्रदेश में तिरंगा यात्रा के दौरान कहा कि नेहरू-पटेल आजादी के लिए फांसी पर झूले थे pic.twitter.com/P0nGNxIdj6

— INC India (@INCIndia) August 23, 2016