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Speaking at the launch of Kerala SCERT textbooks that added back some portions earlier deleted by NCERT, CM Pinarayi said, “Soon, they will undoubtedly portray [Gandhi’s assassin] Godse as a great personality.”

Kerala Minister for General Education V Sivankutty said the new curriculum will be introduced in schools in September, after the Onam vacation.

The Congress government which has taken up the controversial textbook revision exercise has declared that the lesson on RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar has been dropped from the textbooks and the lesson on the letter written by Nehru to his daughter Indira Gandhi has been added.

The controversies over changing the content of textbooks began in 2020, when some topics were removed to shorten the syllabus at a time when schools were shut for long periods due to the pandemic.

Senior academician V P Niranjanaradhya on Wednesday dubbed Karnataka School Education & Literacy Minister B C Nagesh as "a fool", while speaking on the controversy over textbooks.  "B C Nagesh is such a fool that he has no knowledge on education," Niranjanaradhya of the National Law School of India University, said during a discussion on the revision of textbooks organised by