The Congress has been protesting, in Rajasthan, against the removal of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's references from school text books.

Rejecting the allegations about the removal of references to India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru from a Class VII textbook, the State School Education Minister Vasudev Devnani said that the revised syllabus has Mr Nehru's name at 15 places in different textbooks.

Mr Devnani said in a statement that, "The government has not omitted Jawaharlal Nehru's name from textbooks. His name is there at 15 places in the revised books. The references to Mr Nehru are available in textbooks of Class 7 (Hindi), Class 9 (Social science) and Class 11 (World History),"

According to him, Mr Nehru's role in the freedom movement, introduction of Panchayati Raj system, and the non-aligned movement were given space in the revised textbooks.


Congress leaders and workers began to protest after the Rajasthan State Board's. Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee President Sachin Pilot addressed a protest rally against the removal of Jawaharlal Nehru's references from a school text book.

Earlier in the day, opposing the step to omit references to Mr Nehru from the textbook, the state unit of Congress held a demonstration in Jaipur with PCC chief. Sachin Pilot said that it is reflected the "mental bankruptcy" of the Vasundhara Raje government.

Mayuka