Nehru, Rajendra Prasad are not in the books of Uttar Pradesh, because they did not give their lives for the country!

New Delhi: There is no Jawaharlal Nehru, no Rajendra Prasad, no Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. V D Savarkar is there. Lal Bahadur Shastri and Deendayal Upadhyaya are also there. Amid the ongoing controversy over various additions and subtractions in NCERT textbooks, the Uttar Pradesh Board syllabus is making headlines this time. Nehru has been left out of the list of 50 most prominent personalities in India.

The Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra released by the BJP in Uttar Pradesh during the 2022 assembly elections includes biographies of eminent personalities and freedom fighters. It was supposed to be included. Fulfilling that promise, biographies of 50 personalities will be divided into books for classes 9 to 12 from the new academic year in the state this July. Sources in the state board of education said 50 names were finalised after a long discussion. Board secretary Divyakanta Shukla said the biography was mandatory. I also want to pass it. However, this number will not be added to the board exam.

But why is there no country’s first Prime Minister Nehru in this list? “Nehru did not give his life for the country!” asked Gulabi Devi, the independent secondary education minister in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, on Friday. “Children will not read about great personalities or will they read about militants?” the minister argued.