Amidst the reports on the removal
of the first Prime Minister of India-- Jawaharlal Nehru's name from the
Rajasthan textbook, the issue was lifted in Rajya Sabha by Congress member
Rajeev Shukla on Tuesday, May 10.
The
Congress member inculpated BJP of recreating India's history by removing the
names of Congress icons from textbooks and adding the new names of the various
schemes.
"When
we were in power, we did not change the schemes named after Deen Dayal
Upadhyaya. The Civil Aviation minister is here. I would like him to clarify
whether there is a proposal for pilots to announce just the name of the city at
the time of landing and not the airport to avoid perpetuating the names of our
leaders in collective memory," he said, according to a report in The Indian
Express.
On Monday, May 9, an open letter
was sent to the Education Minister Vasudev Devnani about the correction of
these changes.
"You
promote your icons, but let ours be. You can't stop children from accessing
information in this age. If you erase it from textbooks, they will find out
from the internet. You are only vitiating the education environment,"
Shukla included.
What does
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi say?
"The
issue raised by him (Shukla) is serious. But let me assure that no names (of
leaders) are being erased or hidden. In fact, we are only adding names of those
icons sidelined by your government in the past."
Source:- Inidatoday
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