Another famous claim about Shah Jahan is that Shah Jahan had chopped off the hands of the workers, after the Taj Mahal was built. So that they couldn’t build another monument like the Taj Mahal. Indian Union Agricultural Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar, had repeated this claim, saying that
“The Taj Mahal was built in Agra, and the workers who built it, had their hands chopped off. But the workers working on the Vishwanath Corridor, will be welcomed with a petal shower a new tradition was started in this country by PM Narendra Modi.” – Narendra Singh Tomar
If you try to think about this claim logically, you will wonder how it could have been possible. The 20,000 workers who had built the Taj Mahal, were their hands chopped off on the same day? If not, were they asked to come in one by one, you’re they next one to get your hands chopped off. And everyone stood in a queue waiting for their turn.
It wouldn’t have been possible to cut off the hands of 20,000 people in a day. So they had a list of names of the workers whose hands were to be chopped off that day, and then they’d turn away those who were scheduled for another day. Asking them to adhere to the schedule.
If that happened, would the workers have waited in the queue waiting for their turn to get the hands cut off? Waiting in the queue for his turn. As soon as they would have started cutting off their hands, the others would have run away.
