With just a few months left for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the State has announced that a chapter on Hindutva ideologue V.D. Savarkar would be added to the school curriculum.
The announcement was made on Thursday by State Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar, who described Savarkar as a great revolutionary, while accusing the Opposition Congress for ignoring his contributions.
“Congress governments did not give place to great revolutionaries of India in the pages of history; foreign invaders, and not patriots, were described as greats. We will include all such patriots in the new syllabus. Veer Savarkar, too, was a great revolutionary. His life, too, should reach our children,” said Mr. Parmar, adding that chapters on other freedom fighters and national icons would be included in the syllabus.
