On Sunday, senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar heaped praises on the Mughal rulers and claimed that they did not indulge in religious persecution or forced conversions but were patriots. He also claimed that Mughals never carried out the persecution of Hindus or indulged in forced religious conversions even though there is historical evidence of the same including accounts of beheadings carried on by or on behest of various Mughal rulers. Watch this video.