Veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi was once a professor of physics, so no one can criticise him for committing some "historical" blunders in his party's election manifesto. The manifesto says that India's freedom movement was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhas Chandra Bose, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Aurobindo Ghosh. But it does not make any mention of Jawaharlal Nehru, B.R. Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh or Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. At another place the manifesto mentions Spanish scholar Al Andalusi as having said that the first nation to have cultivated science was India. But the manifesto does not mention that Al Andalusi was an Islamic scholar and a qazi in Toledo. As Union Mi...