Criticising the new education policy, the CPM leader said it seeks to mount an assault on reason and rationality, aimed at creating consciousness in favour of a fascist Hindu rashtra.
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI – The Central government led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is keen on rewriting school textbooks with an ultimate aim of furthering its Hindutva ideology. “It wants to transform the character of the Indian republic from a secular democratic republic to a Hindutva nation,” CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury has said.
He was speaking at the national seminar of the new education policy held as part of the state conference of KSTA (Kerala School Teachers Association) in Kozhikode on Sunday, media reports reaching here said.
Yechury said attempts are being made in textbooks to glorify Hindu rule and falsify the period under Muslim kings, emperors and sultans.
Yechury highlighted demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and the construction of the Ram Temple on its ruins as an example of the dominant narrative the saffron party wants to impose on the country.
Criticising the new education policy, the CPM leader said it seeks to mount an assault on reason and rationality, aimed at creating consciousness in favour of a fascist Hindu rashtra. The core content of the new education policy, he said, was meant to nurture the transformation of the Indian republic’s character.
BJP’s first objective, he said, was to create a new history with false narratives that all Muslim constructions were done after razing temples and other Hindu structures.
