RSS files plea in HC against lesson linking it to Gandhi killing

October 4, 2005

>RSS files plea in HC against lesson linking it to Gandhi killing>Pioneer News

Service/ Chennai>The Pioneer>Sept. 26, 2005>>The Madras High Court has issued a

notice to the Tamil Nadu's education>secretary and the director of school

education, on a writ petition from the RSS>seeking the deletion of a lesson in

a history book that linked the organisation>with the assassination of Mahatma

Gandhi.>>The controversial observation is found in the history book prescribed

for higher>secondary students.>>Justice D Murugesan admitted the writ petition

filed by the RSS State unit>president, RVS Marimuthu, and ordered notices to

the two authorities returnable>in two weeks.>>According to the petitioner,

lesson 19 in the book attributed the killing of>Gandhi "to a Hindu fanatic and

member of the RSS Nathuram Vinayak Godse". He>said this was "absolutely false

and baseless" and that the imputation was>"intended to bring disrepute to the

RSS by falsely twisting and distorting>history".>>Neither the RSS nor any of

its members had been implicated in the investigation>and judgement relating to

the murder of Gandhiji, the petitioner said, and>contended that if the lesson

was taught, it would create a wrong impression>about the RSS and cause damage

to its reputation and goodwill.>>"Even the subsequent commissions and

committees constituted to go into the>conspiracy of killing of Gandhiji had

never given any findings or reports on>the alleged involvement of the RSS," he

said. The objectionable portion had>been included deliberately with a view to

lowering the moral character and>credibility of the RSS in the students'

minds.>>He sought a court direction to the director of school education to

issue>suitable instructions to all concerned not to teach the lesson in

question and>direct the Government to delete the portion as published in the

textbook>forthwith.>>>>>>------------------------------->This

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