New Delhi, April 07, 2023 (PPI-OT): Tushar Gandhi, Indian author and the great-grandson of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has said that he was not surprised at Sangh Parivar’s attempt at rewriting history prescribed for schools. Tushar Gandhi in an interview in New Delhi said deletions in NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) textbooks will give greater acceptance to the “campaign of misinformation of the Sangh Parivar”. The NCERT has removed passages in textbooks prescribed for Class 12 political science and history. The portions removed include passages on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, his assassin Nathuram Godse and the 1948 ban on RSS. The NCERT curriculum is followed by several state boards across India.
Maintaining that he was not surprised at the development, Tushar Gandhi said Sangh Parivar never made secret of their desire to rewrite and discredit the established history. Responding to the raging controversy of text book deletions, he said that Gandhi’s ‘real identity and legacy’ always ‘troubled’ the BJP-RSS. The Opposition parties questioned the textbook deletions accusing the RSS-backed BJP government of tying to ‘whitewash’ historical events that trouble the BJP.
Tushar Gandhi also said textbook deletions will make the misinformation campaign by the BJP-RSS easier on a future generation with little exposure to real education and information. ‘This is their version of brainwashing in the very beginning. Instead of trying to overpower thoughts which have already been implanted, they are trying to build on the lies by implanting them in formative minds,’ he said.
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