Thiruvananthapuram, April 08, 2023 (PPI-OT): C.M Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister of the Indian state of Kerala has strongly condemned the dropping of certain chapters and portions from National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) class 12 textbooks and alleged that “complete saffronisation” of academic books was the objective behind the move. Historical facts cannot be denied by just cutting out portions that are inconvenient (to someone) from textbooks, he said in a Facebook post.

Excluding certain portions and chapters from the textbooks with a political motive was not only a negation of history but also a condemnable move. It is evident that the objective behind such actions is the “complete saffronization of textbooks”, the CM added. In the hard-hitting post, Vijayan said it was clear whose interest was being served by the omission of portions about the assassination of Gandhi and the subsequent banning of the RSS, from the political science textbook of class 12.

Portions about the Mughal Empire were also cut down from the history textbook of the same class, he pointed out. “The medieval history of India, excluding the Mughal Empire, is incomplete,” he said, alleging that medieval Indian history had always been an area that the Sangh Parivar had twisted and distorted.

The Kerala CM accused the NCERT of “whitewashing the fake history” created by the Sangh Parivar by excluding these portions. The Sangh Parivar, through the textbooks, was trying to inculcate the politics of hatred and division into the minds of children, the Marxist veteran further charged. Accusing the NCERT of supporting the distorted methodology of the RSS in writing history, Vijayan said strong protest needs to be registered against such moves which would otherwise undermine the secular education envisaged by the Constitution. The Congress has accused the Centre of “whitewashing” and “distorting” history.

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