India's biggest state (whose CM many people believe will be India's next Prime Minister) just removed their first Prime Minister out of a crucial great leaders list and replaced him with.....the guy who conspired to kill Gandhi.
BJP, in its Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra released for 2022 Legislative Assembly elections, had promised to include biographies of great men in the syllabus
www.hindustantimes.com
Defending the decision to exclude Nehru, secondary education minister (independent charge) Gulab Devi said, “Nehru had not made the supreme sacrifice for the country.“ Hence, Nehru was excluded from the list of 50 biographies of great men, she said. On inclusion of Savarkar, minister said, “If we don’t teach students about our great leaders like Savarkar and Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay, what do we teach them? Are we supposed to tell our kids about terrorists instead of making them aware of the life and times of great personalities of India?”
Nehru:
* Major leader of India's independence movement
* First Prime Minister of India
* Served as Prime Minister for 17 years
* Heavily responsible for India starting out as a pluralistic democracy
* Pushed socialism and care for all factions of society
Savarkar
* Founder of Hindu Nationalism, despite being an atheist
* Supported fascism in Germany and Italy
* Suggested that Hitler's solution for Jews could be replicated in India with Muslims
* Boycotted the independence movement
* Was a co-conspirator in Gandhi's assassination
* Never held any meaningful post
A state with a population of 250 million is now going to teach kids that Savarkar is an Indian hero and Nehru is irrelevant.
This is basically the equivalent of Texas eliminating Abraham Lincoln from the textbooks to study Jefferson Davis instead. That's the era Indian government is aiming for right now.
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