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Sex education: Lalu differs with Renuka

New Delhi: Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Tuesday differed with his Ministerial colleague Renuka Chowdhury on sex education for children in schools, saying that it was having a “bad impact” on them and was destroying Indian culture.

Ms. Chowdhury, who is Minister of State for Women and Child Development, said “sex education is not titillating. It is not supposed to excite. It is to demystify...Now when a Minister like me says yes we must have sex education, there is so much sensationalism.”

Opposing sex education in schools, Mr. Prasad told reporters that “whatever information is being given about sex is having bad impact on children. It is not good. This also has bad impact on society.”

Asked whether he favoured such education for children, the RJD chief said, “No, not at all. This is a very bad thing. Our entire culture can collapse”.

The Minister was responding to presspersons at Rail Bhavan, where he launched an Integrated Train Enquiry System.

BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has said that sex education will lead to collapse of the education system and create an immoral society. — PTI

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