MP govt to include Veer Savarkar chapter in school syllabus

Bhopal, June 29: Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar said on Thursday that a chapter on staunch nationalist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar would be added to the school curriculum.

 

 

“Veer Savarkar is one of the great revolutionaries…He contributed to the Indian Independence movement… Unfortunately, the Congress did not teach about the true revolutionaries of India. Foreign revolutionaries were said to be great, but not our own patriots. We will include biographies of true heroes and the new syllabus will include Veer Savarkar, Bhagavad Gita Sandesh, Bhagwan Parshuram, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru and others,” Parmar said.

 

 

Targeting the previous Kamal Nath-led Congress government in the state, Parmar alleged that during its term, a principal was suspended after a book about the life of Savarkar was distributed in a school.

 

"It is unfortunate that they want to include Savarkar. He apologized to the British and including him in the syllabus is an insult to freedom fighters," Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Arif Masood said while talking to ANI.

 

The move comes before the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections that would be held around November 2023.

 

Prior to this, the Uttar Pradesh government decided to include Veer Savarkar's biography as a compulsory subject for students of the state board.