CM slams Centre's vindictive move over textbook revision
Pinarayi Vijayan
, on Monday, launched a sharp attack against the Centre, accusing it of adopting a vindictive stance towards
Kerala
for resisting its saffronization agenda and opposing attempts to make changes in textbooks according to the same agenda.
Inaugurating the students' rally and public meeting as part of SFI's 18th national conference, he said that Centre's new education policy, which poses a threat to the country and misleads future generations, is unacceptable.
Vijayan alleged that Centre was trying to saffronize education and as part of that agenda, efforts were being made to distort history by adding some chapters into textbooks. "While efforts are being made to rewrite history, some people are openly coming out against the Constitution.
Moves are being made to destroy the democratic system and demands are being made to change the core principles of the Constitution," he said.
Vijayan said RSS had no role in the freedom struggle and asserted that this historical truth was inconvenient for the BJP-led Centre. "That is why they are trying to rewrite history and glorify figures like Savarkar to distort history. Alterations have been made in textbooks so that the true picture of the freedom struggle is not reflected," he said, adding that Savarkar had betrayed India's freedom struggle.
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Vijayan said Kerala refused to follow Centre's directives to revise textbooks in line with its ideological preferences. "We decided to restore the chapters that were deleted. It is this refusal that led the Centre to adopt a vengeful approach against the state," he said.
Vijayan also highlighted the achievements of LDF govt and added that during its nine-year rule, Kerala saw significant progress in higher education. "Three state universities are now ranked among the top 12 in the country and 16 colleges are among the top 100," he said.
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