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‘Personal staff dictating educational reforms’

THIRUVANANTHPAURAM: Two persons in the personal staff of Education Minister M.A. Baby are dictating measures that go by the name of educational reforms in the state, District Congress Committee president V.S. Sivakumar has said.

He was inaugurating a secretariat march organised by the Kerala Students Union (KSU) in protest against the police lathicharge on KSU activists inside the premises of the Secretariat on Tuesday.

The KSU activists who marched to the Secretariat on that day were demanding that the government recall the new textbooks that have been introduced for various classes in schools. These textbooks have no place for leaders who fought for Independence, but have space for leftist ideology.

If the government thinks that it can use the police to suppress such an agitation it is seriously mistaken. The Congress has thrown its weight behind the KSU’s agitation, Mr. Sivakumar added.

KSU leaders who addressed the march and the subsequent dharna pointed out that on the same day that KSU activists were “brutally assaulted” by the police, activists of the Students Federation of India who pushed around none other than the city police commissioner were let off without even a case being registered against them.

The KSU had called for a State-wide educational strike on Wednesday in protest against Tuesday’s lathi charge here.

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