BJP ‘saffronising’ education: AAP

  • | Tuesday | 25th July, 2017

Their understanding of education reforms is limited to changing India’s history textbooks to suit their narrative,” said Ms.Marlena, who is also an adviser to Education Minister Manish Sisodia. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday lashed out at the BJP and the RSS for their alleged attempt to saffronise the education system in the country by suggesting religious overtones in the curricula of schools and colleges. “The multicultural, multilingual identity of our country is being attacked by the Sangh Parivar as it tries to homogenise the society by meddling with education,” said AAP leader Atishi Marlena. ‘No infrastructure’She also alleged that no attention was being paid to the crumbling infrastructure of schools and the falling education standards across the country. The party, in a Facebook live session between senior leader Ashutosh and Ms. Marlena, also spoke about the “poor” condition of education in BJP-ruled States.

more-in The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday lashed out at the BJP and the RSS for their alleged attempt to saffronise the education system in the country by suggesting religious overtones in the curricula of schools and colleges. Referring to a news report which claimed that the RSS-affiliated Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyasthe Nyas, headed by Dina Nath Batra, had written to the NCERT, seeking changes in the contents of textbooks, it alleged that India’s composite culture was under an attack from the Sangh Parivar. ‘Bigoted suggestions’ The party leaders advised the BJP to first address the fundamental problems of the sector. “The multicultural, multilingual identity of our country is being attacked by the Sangh Parivar as it tries to homogenise the society by meddling with education,” said AAP leader Atishi Marlena. She alleged that Mr. Batra’s recommendations were “bizarre and brazenly bigoted” and clearly aimed at “cleansing” the textbooks of any reference to India’s secular identity, Urdu and Arabic words, and the non-Hindu works of literature. “The RSS-BJP’s interventions and discourse on education start and end with religion. Their understanding of education reforms is limited to changing India’s history textbooks to suit their narrative,” said Ms.Marlena, who is also an adviser to Education Minister Manish Sisodia. ‘No infrastructure’ She also alleged that no attention was being paid to the crumbling infrastructure of schools and the falling education standards across the country. The party, in a Facebook live session between senior leader Ashutosh and Ms. Marlena, also spoke about the “poor” condition of education in BJP-ruled States.

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