Asaduddin Owaisi: Don't Glorify Crime in NCERT Books

Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said children should not grow up "glorifying criminal acts" in reference to the lesson on the Babri Masjid demolition being tweaked in NCERT textbooks.

In a post on 'X', the Hyderabad MP said India's children should know that the Supreme Court had called the demolition of Babri Masjid an "egregious criminal act".

"The NCERT has decided to replace Babri Masjid with the words 'three-domed structure.' It has also decided to call the Ayodhya judgment an example of 'consensus.' India's children should know that the Supreme Court called the demolition of Babri Masjid an egregious criminal act," Owaisi said.

The AIMIM chief said India's children should know that a functioning masjid was "desecrated" in 1949 and then demolished by a mob in 1992. "They should not grow up glorifying criminal acts," he said.

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) director Dinesh Prasad Saklani had recently said the tweaks in textbooks are part of the annual revision and should not be a subject of hue and cry.