MoS HRD Satyapal Singh | Photo Credit: Twitter

Aurangabad: Minister of State for the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) Satyapal Singh on Friday rejected Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, claiming that humans appeared on earth as humans and Darwin’s Theory should not be taught in schools and colleges in India.

He claimed that Darwin's theory of the evolution of man found no mention in India’s ancient texts nor in stories told by our ancestors, or as he called them – Nana-Nani tales.

"No person has ever mentioned in writing or in our Nana-Nani tales, that he (Darwin) went anywhere into the jungles and witnessed an ape transform into a human. This has not been written anywhere. Darwin's story is scientifically wrong so we should not be teaching that in our schools or colleges. Humans appeared on Earth as humans, right from the beginning and man will always remain a man,” Singh stated.

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He went on to state that Darwin’s theory has been proved wrong before and this fact should be told to Indian students as well.

"You might not be knowing, but our scientists abroad have proved this wrong at least 35 years ago," he added.

Aurangabad | BJP Minister Satyapal Singh Challenged Darwin Law https://t.co/OVIEP68FxU via @YouTube @HRDMinistry @dr_satyapal — Office Of Dr. Satya Pal Singh (@OfficeOfSPS) January 20, 2018

The union minister was in Aurangabad on Friday where he visited the Police Public School and interacted with teachers and students. He also addressed the All India Vedic Conference along with MP Chandrakant Khaireji.

The minister is not new to making controversial and eyeball-grabbing statements.

Recently, the minister had suggested that students in IITs be taught about Shivakar Babuji Talpade, who he claims is the Indian who invented the aeroplane much before the Wright brothers did. Singh also wanted IITians to be given lessons about the ‘Pushpak Vimaan,’ the flying chariot mentioned in Ramayana.

Last month, Singh had claimed that no boy will want to marry a girl who will come to the marriage mandap wearing jeans.

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The minister had made this comment while addressing students at the concluding ceremony of the foundation day of Maharana Pratap Siksha Parishad in Gorakhpur, where he emphasised on the importance of the appropriateness of one’s attire in Indian culture, where he spoke about which dress must be worn in a particular situation.

“Koi aadmi agar kehne lage ki main jeans pehenke kisi mandir ka mahant ban jaaunga to log pasand karenge kya? Koi pasand nahi karega. Ya koi ladki jeans pehenkar ke shaadi ke bedi pe jaayegi to kitne ladke usse shaadi karna chahenge? (If someone says he will wear jeans and become the priest of a temple, will people like that? Nobody will like it. Or if a girl comes to the wedding mandap wearing jeans, will anyone want to marry her?),” Satyapal Singh had said.

In the Cabinet rejig held last year, Satyapal Singh was elevated as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

Satya Pal Singh has been the Commissioner of Police of Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur - and is credited with breaking the backbone of organised crime syndicates in Mumbai in the 1990s.