SAD requires withdrawal of an NCERT textbook over declare of for a separate Sikh nation

On Saturday, eighth April 2023, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) demanded the withdrawal of an NCERT e guide for calling the Anantpur Sahib choice a plea for a separate nation. SAD condemned the reference to the Anandpur Sahib choice inside the class XII textbook of historic previous and demanded that the e guide should be withdrawn.

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal talked about, “Is the NCERT run by illiterate and ill-informed people? Do NCERT ‘scholars’ not even know elementary history? The resolution, which contains Shiromani Akali Dal’s vision of Centre-state relations, was accepted as legitimate in the Rajiv-Longowal Accord endorsed by the Parliament and it was referred to Sarkaria Commission.”

According to Badal, the Class XII political science textbook ‘Politics in India since Independence’ refers again to the Anandpur Sahib Resolution as a plea for a separate nation.

He further talked about, “The Sarkaria Commission had based its recommendations on the Anandpur Sahib Resolution and these were accepted by the government of India. Is the BJP bent on repeating the ‘Indira Gandhi model’ of politics and thus weakening national unity? The SAD condemns the NCERT move and demands that the book be withdrawn. This is just one of the blunders that are being committed by the present dispensation.”

SAD outrightly condemns NCERT references to Sri Anandpur Sahib Resolution as “a plea for a separate nation” in school XII textual content material e guide ‘Politics In India Since Independence’. The e guide ought to be withdrawn imm. The talked about choice is part of Punjab Accord signed by PM & authorised by Parl. pic.twitter.com/xbtSxjqhoz

— Sukhbir Singh Badal (@officeofssbadal) April 8, 2023

Earlier the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) strongly objected to the alleged misrepresentation of historic particulars related to the Sikhs inside the NCERT e guide. SGPC chief Harjinder Singh Dhami claimed that the NCERT had given “misleading” particulars concerning the Anandpur Sahib Resolution in Chapter 8 (‘Regional Aspirations’) of the Class XII political science e guide ‘Politics in India since Independence’. Dhami claimed that the 1973 choice was focused on the state’s rights and strengthening the federal development. Harjinder Singh Dhami talked about, “It is not at all justified to portray Sikhs as separatists, so the NCERT should remove such highly objectionable mentions.”

The Shiromani Akali Dal’s working committee unanimously accepted a doc generally called the Anandpur Sahib Resolution at a conference held at Anandpur Sahib on October 16-17, 1973. It was supported inside the kind of a group of resolutions all through the Shiromani Akali Dal’s 18th All India Akali Conference, held in Ludhiana on October 28-29, 1978. The choice asserting its objectives, which might provide the state quasi-independence, left solely the powers of Foreign Relations, Defense, Currency, and General Communications subject to the central authorities’s administration. The Anandpur Sahib Resolution was thought-about a separatist manifesto by Indira Gandhi.