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| Why State Holiday when Sheikh Abdullah wasn't born on Dec 5? | | Sheikh's close aide claims NC founder's birthdate as Jan 29, 1903 | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 4: The government offices would remain shut on December 5 to commemorate 111th birth anniversary of Sheikh Abdullah. NC will pay tributes to its founder and people will have one more holiday- what if authentic historical records suggest that Sheikh was not born on December 5, 1905 and his birth entry in government records is wrong.
In his autobiography, called Aatesh-e-Chinar (The Blazing Chinar), NC founder Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah has not mentioned his date of birth as December 5, 1905. Instead, he has preferred silence over the issue in his entire book.
Also, during the public meetings and addresses, Sheikh has never claimed that he was born on December 5.
Sheikh Abdullah's one of the trusted lieutenant was Mohammad Yousuf Taing. He was also Sheikh's literary assistant in penning down his biography. Taing has come out in open claiming that Sheikh's birth date as December 5 is incorrect. He says the NC founder was not born on December 5, 1905, but on January 29, 1903.
"I argued with Sheikh Sahib about it and told him that December 5 is not his actual date of birth. Sheikh Sahib admitted that his brother had registered his wrong birth date and year," Taing has said.
Taing was the sole amanuensis of late Sheikh's autobiography entitled 'Aatish-e-Chinar' which won the Sahitya Akademi award.
Contesting that December 5 is not the actual birth date of NC founder, Taing claims that he had wrongly mentioned his date of birth as December 5.
Taing said that Sheikh at that time told him that the Muslims at that time were not serious in mentioning the actual date of birth of children and that his brother at that time had registered the wrong date.
Taing further claimed that he told Sheikh to rectify the error and that the misinformation must not spread. On this Taing quoted Sheikh as saying, "It will trouble my supporters and general masses will get disturbed if I do any such act."
Taing claimed that Sheikh decided that neither the actual birth date shall be mentioned, nor the incorrect one shall be entertained in his autobiography.
Taing has worked as the Director of Information, Cultural Adviser to Chief Minister, and Director General of Culture.Meanwhile, when two years ago, Taing has spilled the truth about Sheikh's date of birth, there are voices of concern that are mounting from everywhere in the state- pitching for the rectification of errors. "Why should we narrate the erroneous historical date to our coming generations. They deserve truth and it should be told to them. If we know that December 5 isn't Sheikh Abdullah's actual date of birth, government should seriously do something about it," says Sheikh Saqib, a student of history here.
Interestingly, we have seen numerous instances in history wherein politicians across the world had the incorrect birth date. Joseph Stalin, born December 18, 1878, changed the date to December 21, 1879 later in his life for unknown reasons. Stalin changed the year to 1879 to have a national birthday celebration of his 50th birthday. He could not do it in 1928 because his rule was not absolute enough. The incorrect December 21, 1879 date was printed in many almanacs and encyclopaedia during Stalin's reign and remains one of the most widely reported incorrect dates of birth. Eva Perón, born May 7, 1919, had her birth certificate altered to 1922 after becoming First Lady of Argentina. She made herself seem to be younger and also to appear that her parents had been married when she was born. |
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