Owaisi slams Modi govt for removing Babri Masjid, Gujarat anti-Muslim riots from textbooks
New Delhi: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi has criticized the Modi government’s decision to remove references to the Babri Masjid and the 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim riots from textbooks, stating that the ruling BJP is manipulating education to suit its ideological agenda.
According to Kashmir Media Service, during a Lok Sabha debate, the AIMIM leader questioned the NCERT’s [National Council of Educational Research and Training] removal of these critical events, asking, “Should our children not learn about the Gujarat pogrom, the massacre of minority Muslims? Why should people not learn from the mistakes of the past?”
Owaisi emphasized that the government’s actions smack of a deliberate attempt to distort history and conceal the truth about the BJP’s complicity in these events. He pointed out that the NCERT has reduced the section on Ayodhya from four to two pages and removed detailed references to the Babri Masjid, instead referring to it as a “three-domed structure” in the revised Class 12 political science textbook.
Notably, Indian government’s this move is part of a larger pattern of the BJP’s bias against Muslims and their symbols, aimed at erasing their cultural and historical identity. By expunging these references, the government is attempting to whitewash its own role in perpetuating communal violence and bringing about a sanitized version of history that serves its political interests.
