How can anyone change fundamental history? Nitish Kumar reacts to Amit Shah's remark

PATNA: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has yet again taken a divergent stand from the BJP, his alliance partner, on another key issue.
Reacting to a recent statement of Union home minister Amit Shah on rewriting history, Nitish Kumar said he does not understand how can anyone change history.
“How can you change history? It is beyond my understanding how history can be changed? History is what it is. History is history,” Nitish said when asked to comment on Amit Shah’s remark.
“Writing a language is a different issue, but you can’t change the fundamental history,” said Nitish, who has deep interest in history and archeology despite being an engineer (B. Tech) by education.
Nitish, who heads a coalition government with the support of the BJP in Bihar, was responding to media queries after his weekly “Janta Ke Darbar Mein Mukhyamantri” programme in the state capital here.
Amit Shah had recently expressed the need for re-visiting history as the historians had given more prominence to Mughals and ignored the glorious Indian empires.
Speaking at a book-release event in New Delhi on Friday (June 10), Amit Shah had stressed the need of revisiting history, saying, “Most of the historians in India have given prominence to recording the history of Mughals, ignoring the glorious rules of many empires like Pandyas and Cholas.” Shah had also said, ““No one can stop us from writing the truth. We are now independent. We can write our own history.”
“I want to tell the historians. We have many empires, but historians have concentrated only on the Mughals and wrote mostly about them. The Pandya empire ruled for 800 years. The Ahom empire ruled Assam for 650 years. They (Ahoms) had even defeated Bakhtiyar Khalji, Aurangzeb and kept Assam sovereign. The Pallava Empire ruled for 600 years. The Cholas ruled for 600 years,” the Union minister had said on Friday.
This is not the only issue on which the Bihar CM differs with his ally the BJP. Recently, Nitish asserted that there was no need for an anti-conversion law in Bihar where his government always remains "alert" towards any sensitive issue and the members of different religious communities lived in harmony with each other.
Many BJP leaders, especially Union minister Giriraj Singh, who hails from Bihar, have been frequently demanding an anti-conversion law in the state.
Just a week ago, Nitish asserted that population cannot be controlled only by making a law, while disapproving the Union minister and BJP leader Prahlad Singh Patel’s statement that a law for population control would be brought soon in the Parliament.
Nitish had also said, “Nothing happens by just framing rules and regulations.”
Besides these, Nitish is not on the same page with the BJP on issues like uniform civil code, national register of citizens (NRC) and abrogation of Article 370.