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Sahmat `overreaching` itself in defaming NCERT: Rajput
New Delhi, June 30: Stoutly rejecting the charge that the new history textbooks betrayed `chauvinistic and communal bias`, NCERT today said Sahmat, known to be a frontal organisation of a (left) political party, has been `overreaching` itself in defaming NCERT.
New Delhi, June 30: Stoutly rejecting the charge that the new history textbooks betrayed "chauvinistic and communal bias", NCERT today said Sahmat, known to be a frontal
organisation of a (left) political party, has been "overreaching" itself in defaming NCERT.
"Mistakes which invariably creep into the first print run of any book are being misrepresented to suit the political agenda of Sahmat's parent body,” NCERT director J S Rajput said in a statement.
Describing Veer Sarvarkar as one of the brightest stars of the freedom struggle, he said Sahmat's "backers" would like Savarkar to be banished from India's collective memory and accordingly he was ignored by the previous NCERT authors. "But now that Savarkar's place has been restored to its rightful place, Sahmat is wild with rage,” he said.
Admitting that some inaccuracies over dates and names had crept into the first print run, Rajput said NCERT was open to professional suggestions. But politically motivated allegations were unacceptable, he said.
"In essence, the NCERT is willing to acknowledge mix-ups over dates and names. But no Sahmat's analysis of Veer Savarkar", he said adding "we need no lessons from a party which has international notoriety for pushing blinkered, erroneous history in schools in West Bengal".
He claimed that NCERT's new textbooks have found unprecedented popularity, even in states which were initially opposed to the new syllabus. "This has obviously hurt the interests of certain political parties.”
Bureau Report
"Mistakes which invariably creep into the first print run of any book are being misrepresented to suit the political agenda of Sahmat's parent body,” NCERT director J S Rajput said in a statement.
Describing Veer Sarvarkar as one of the brightest stars of the freedom struggle, he said Sahmat's "backers" would like Savarkar to be banished from India's collective memory and accordingly he was ignored by the previous NCERT authors. "But now that Savarkar's place has been restored to its rightful place, Sahmat is wild with rage,” he said.
Admitting that some inaccuracies over dates and names had crept into the first print run, Rajput said NCERT was open to professional suggestions. But politically motivated allegations were unacceptable, he said.
"In essence, the NCERT is willing to acknowledge mix-ups over dates and names. But no Sahmat's analysis of Veer Savarkar", he said adding "we need no lessons from a party which has international notoriety for pushing blinkered, erroneous history in schools in West Bengal".
He claimed that NCERT's new textbooks have found unprecedented popularity, even in states which were initially opposed to the new syllabus. "This has obviously hurt the interests of certain political parties.”
Bureau Report