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An auto rickshaw drives past a huge hoarding showing Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's alleged popularity among world leaders being the highest, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, April 6, 2023
THE Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) political committee has strongly condemned plans by Narendra Modi’s government to rewrite the country’s history textbooks.
Mr Modi wanted to write the Mughal empire out of the textbooks because its rulers were Muslims, the party said today.
The prime minister also intends to revise the textbooks to “whitewash the divisive and violent role of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh [RSS] organisation” in the assassination of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, the CPI-M warned, with Gandhi’s killing by Nathuram Godse, a member of the Hindhu chauvinist RSS slated for removal from the syllabus published by the supposedly autonomous National Council of Educational Research and Training.
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