NCERT: RSS thanks Joshi for giving what it wanted

Hailing the Supreme Court judgement in favour of the national school curriculum policy, RSS chief K.S. Sudarshan today said here that HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi has given the country’s education a cultural perspective, which is exactly what the Sangh wanted.

The occasion was the book release of Panchjanya editor Tarun Vijay’s Bampathi Ki Kaluskatha (The Dark Tales of the Left) and Sudarshan used it well to hit out at the Left regime in Bengal. He even spoke a line or two in Bengali to poke fun at former chief minister and Marxist leader Jyoti Basu’s regime in West Bengal.

The RSS chief, without mincing words, said that Joshi has achieved what the RSS had been fighting for for the past 50 years.

‘‘They (the secularist lobby) had de-saffronised education, retaining its largely colonial nature and distorting history. And now Joshi has brought back the traditional culture into education. What is wrong in that,’’ Sudarshan said.