BJP rewriting history books to further Hindutva Agenda: Yechury
New Delhi: Indian government led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is keen on rewriting school textbooks with an ultimate aim of furthering its Hindutva ideology in India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury speaking at the seminar of the new education policy said, “The BJP wants to transform the character of the Indian republic from a secular democratic republic to a Hindutva nation,” has said.
Yechury said attempts are being made in textbooks to glorify Hindutva rule and falsify the period under Muslim kings, emperors and sultans.
Yechury highlighted demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and the construction of the Ram Temple on its ruins as an example of the dominant narrative the Hindutva BJP party wants to impose in India.
Criticising the new education policy, the CPٰI-M leader said it seeks to mount an assault on reason and rationality, aimed at creating consciousness in favour of a Hindutva Rashtra. The core content of the new education policy, he said, was meant to nurture the transformation of the Indian republic’s character.
BJP’s first objective, he said, was to create a new history with false narratives that all Muslim constructions were done after razing temples and other Hindu structures.
