JAIPUR: The ruling Congress and the BJP on Wednesday sparred on Twitter over the changes in school textbooks, including the removal of a picture suggesting self-immolation under the practices of Sati and Jauhar.
The Congress Government led by Ashok Gehlot has tasked a committee to make changes in the textbooks introduced by the previous BJP Government.
The prefix “Veer” has now been removed from Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s name in Class 10 social science books.
He has now been described as someone who “plotted” the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and furnished an apology for clemency from the British.
Similarly, a picture suggesting self-immolation under Sati or Jauhar was replaced with that of a hill fort in a Class 8 English textbook. (AGENCIES)
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