Bhopal: State Education Minister PC Sharma on Sunday said that strict action will be taken against people who have depicted Mahatma Gandhi negatively in the module book prepared for class 10 students.
The minister held responsible 'the people sitting in the government for 15 years' for the mistake.
"There are people who have portrayed Mahatma Gandhi in the wrong light in the recent days, action will be taken against them," he said without taking anyone's name.
In the module book prepared for Class 10 students by the Madhya Pradesh Education Department, Mahatma Gandhi has been termed as 'Kubuddhi' (malevolent).
Attacking the Congress government over the mistake, BJP leader Rameshwar Sharma said that the grand old party had never believed in the Gandhian ideology.
"Congress never accepted Mahatma Gandhi's ideology. It never accepted Gandhi's Ram, Ram Rajya, Gram Rajya but it only accepted Gandhi surname so that Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka can be established (in the politics)," Sharma said.
He further added, "Congress has killed Gandhian ideology. Gandhi's depiction as 'Kubuddhi' shows how much Congress believes in his ideas."
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The mistake has appeared on Page 46 of the Test Paper-3 in the question and answers section, prepared for Class X students, where Gandhi has been termed as 'Kubuddhi'. The module is being used to teach students for the past many months.
The controversial line reads: "Kubuddhi was a wicked man and led a life of drinking and Gandhijis."
The state education board has prepared the module for helping the students, who are weak in some subjects, and is used in all government schools across the state.
Several teachers, however, have attributed the mistake to printing. "It happened due to a misprint. The word which should have been there is 'gambling' instead of 'Gandhiji'. It can be a printing mistake, but there is no mistake of any expert who prepared the question paper," a teacher said.
"Both the words begin with the letter 'G' and therefore it could have resulted in the mistake. The lesson, which the module relates to is called 'Pot of Gold' which is a part of the moral story," she added.
Congress spokesperson Vibha Patel said that an inquiry will be conducted into the matter and all the people behind the lapse will be taken to task.
"It is indeed a very big mistake. An inquiry will be conducted against all those involved in the making of the question paper. Action will be taken against them. The Congress party has never supported this kind of mentality," said Patel.
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