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Every rupee in my foundation awaiting its turn to save a life: Sonu Sood on tax evasion allegations

September 20, 2021

Every rupee in his foundation is “awaiting its turn” to be used to reach the needy and save lives, actor Sonu Sood said in a statement on Monday in response to the CBDT’s allegation that he and his associates evaded tax of Rs 20 crore.

Speaking for the first time since multiples searches at his premises and those related to his associates last week, the 48-year-old actor stated that he had been busy “attending to a few guests”, the reason why he was unable to be at the service of the people for four days.

“Here I am back again in all humility. At your humble service, for life. My journey continues. Jai Hind,” he wrote in a statement posted on Instagram.

Sood routed his “unaccounted income in the form of bogus unsecured loans from many bogus entities”, the Central Board of Direct Taxes claimed after the Income Tax Department raided the actor and a Lucknow-based infrastructure group.

It also accused the ”Dabangg” actor — who came into the national spotlight for his work with migrants and others during the Covid pandemic through his Sood Charity Foundation — of violating the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) while raising donations from abroad.

Sood said in his statement that he had pledged himself to the service of the people of India with all his “strength and heart”.

”You don’t always have to tell your side of the story. Time will. Every rupee in my foundation is awaiting its turn to save a precious life and reach the needy. In addition, on many occasions, I have encouraged brands to donate my endorsement fees for humanitarian causes too, which keeps us going,” he said.

“‘Kar bhala to ho bhala, ant bhale ka bhala’ (A good deed always ends well),” he wrote in Hindi.

In a statement on Saturday, the CBDT claimed it had found “incriminating evidence about tax evasion” during searches at the premises of the actor and his associates. The searches began on September 15 and continued for three more days.

“The main modus operandi followed by the actor had been to route his unaccounted income in the form of bogus unsecured loans from many bogus entities,” the statement had read.

It added that, so far, the use of 20 such entries has been found and the providers of which, on examination, ”accepted” on oath to have given ”bogus” accommodation entries (transaction entries in accounts).

Sood hit the headlines after he arranged free transport through rail, air, and road for numerous migrant workers to reach their home states during the nationwide lockdown clamped last year to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic.

The CBDT said the charity foundation set up by the actor was incorporated on July 21, 2020, and had collected donations to the tune of Rs 18.94 crore from April 1, 2021, to date.

Out of this, it said, the foundation has spent around Rs 1.9 crore for various relief works and the balance of Rs 17 crore has been found lying “unutilized” in its bank account.

Funds to the tune of Rs 2.1 crore have also been raised by the charity foundation from overseas donors on a crowdfunding platform ”in violation” of FCRA regulations, it alleged. The Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government in Delhi recently appointed Sood ambassador of its ‘Desh ka mentors’ program under which students will be guided in making their career choices.

Shiv Sena and NCP are preparing to make a big dent in the BJP?

Vaidehi Taman

September 19, 2021

There are speculations that some BJP MLAs are expected to join the NCP next week. It is being said that Shiv Sena and NCP have come up with a big strategy for this. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs are reportedly on the path of the ruling Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). It is being said that this MLA will join Shiv Sena and NCP next week.

BJP state president Chandrakant Patil while giving his reaction on this said that “The creating such news does not do anything. It’s been 20-22 months. None of our MLAs could get their hands on it. Instead, we won at Pandharpur. I do not understand why such rumour-mongering?” he asked.

Ajit Pawar is the Deputy Chief Minister of the state and belongs to Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad. According to the sources, some MLAs have expressed their desire to join the NCP while others have expressed their desire to join the Shiv Sena considering the local situation.

Sanjay Raut said that “The statement made by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in Marathwada was a Thackeray style speech. Nowhere Uddhav Thackeray has ever mentioned about a new alliance, he never said that the government will fall or we will leave this government.”

“See what we can do in a couple of days. There are clear indications from Uddhav Ji that those who want to be future colleagues can come to us,” Raut further stated.

Chandrakant Patil said, “No matter how many people they try to kidnap, in the end, people love Narendra Modi. People do not love corporators.” Chandrakant Patil has also said that he is waiting for the passer-by to think again.

Bharat Bandh: Maha Vikas Aghadi is yet to take decisions on Mumbai Bandh

Afternoon Voice

September 17, 2021

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha has called the nationwide bandh to intensify the farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s three agricultural laws. Whether or not Mumbai will shut down completely as part of the September 27 Bharat Bandh will depend on the stand of the Maha Vikas Aghadi, farmer union leaders have said.

The president of the All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), Ashok Dhawale, told Afternoon Voice “We have announced bandh and that would take place everywhere else in the state, but as long as Mumbai is concerned, it would depend on what Maha Vikas Aghadi Government decides. However, there will still be blockades and appeals to close shops in the city to some point. Again, we are not going to force anyone, people can render their support in solidarity with farmers.”

A state-levelmeeting of the leaders of various political parties, farmers’ organizations, agricultural labourers as well as women, youth, students and teachers have been planned for September 20 at Bhupesh Gupta Bhawan in Prabhadevi.

Speaking about the plans for September 27 Bandh, Dhavle said, “We will go down to the masses level everywhere and hold numerous meetings in rural areas, towns, and cities. Leaflets will be distributed in the seven days leading up to the bandh. This bandh will also coincide with the completion of 10 months of the farmers’ struggle, which is on September 26,” Dhawale added.

In a statement, Jan Andolananchi Sangharsh Samiti, Samyukta Shetkari Kamgar Morcha, All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, Trade Unions Joint Action Committee, Unorganized Workers Struggle Committee, and Hum Bharat ke Log/Nation for Farmers called for a state-level preparatory meeting for Bharat Bandh at 5 pm on September 20.

A Potent Presence

Satish Singh

September 17, 2021

hindi diwas, hindi day For almost 200 years, the media has been working to expand Hindi on a global scale. The name of the first Hindi newspaper was “Udant Martand”, which was published in Calcutta in 1826. Even before independence, businessmen from all over the world used to learn Hindi, because for doing business in India, they were needed to know Hindi. Owing to having a big size of the market, the Indian market was the source of earning much more profit for businessmen from all over the world.

India was therefore the centre of attraction for many countries of the world. Today’s media is also drenched in the colour of Hindi. In general, the medium of its communication is Hindi, because, in India, most people speak Hindi & also understand Hindi. Hindi is the language of communication for all in print, electronic, social or web media.

Radio in India started in the third decade of the twentieth century, while Doordarshan started in the sixth decade of the twentieth century. Private TV channels also came to India in the nineties of the twentieth century. The Internet also came in this decade, but social media and web media came to India in the first decade of the twenty-first century. With the arrival of these new faces of the media, there was an unprecedented speed in the spread of Hindi in the country and abroad. Hindi was heard and learned even in the states where Hindi was not spoken.

Dainik Bhaskar, a Hindi daily, is today the most circulated newspaper in the country. The total circulation of Dainik Bhaskar Group newspapers in the period of January to June 2019 was more than 54 lakhs. It is noteworthy that this number is even more than one million from the second-ranked Times of India group.

Today, most Hindi news, advertisements and programs are being broadcast on TV. Hindi is also dominated by social and web media. Hindi newspapers are also being published from abroad. For example, the newspaper “Hum Hindustani” is being published in America. Many Hindi portals are also being operated from abroad. For example, the Hindi literary portal “Setu” is being operated from America.

According to the 22nd edition of the World Language Database, “Ethno-Lodge”, English is the most spoken language in the world, with Mandarin in second place and Hindi in third place. About 113 crore people speak English, while 62 crore people speak Hindi. Today Hindi is spoken and understood prominently in more than 3 dozen countries. Hindi is even the second most popular language in America after English.

Hindi literature is very rich. It is full of emotions of heroism, devotion, spiritualism etc. It is compared with the best literature in the world. Hindi literature has been continuously enriching for the last 1200 years. The Hindi language has inherited a rich vocabulary of many languages and dialects. Hindi has openly accepted words from Arabic-Persian, Urdu, English, Sanskrit, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya and dialects of Awadhi, Magahi, Bhojpuri, Brajbhasha, Bundelkhandi etc. People of the country and abroad are also learning Hindi to read Hindi writers and poets. Many people have learned Hindi for reading the novel “Chandrakanta-Santati” which was written by Devaki Nandan Khatri.

The Hindi language is also technically flexible, as it can be easily used on computers, the internet, social and web media. Today, many books, newspapers and magazines are being published in the Hindi language on topics related to technology and business. Hindi has become internet and computer friendly. Hindi is also the language of email, social media, and web media. Hindi has become the vehicle of the development of science and technology and business. Today, books related to science and business are being translated into Hindi. Business newspapers are being published in Hindi, in which the names of “Business Standard”, “Financial Express” and “Economic Times” can be taken prominently.

Social media originated in the first decade of the 21st century. Social media is conducted through the Internet. Social media like Orkut was very popular during the year 2007. Later came Facebook. At present, Instagram, Twitter, Google, WhatsApp etc. are popular social media. The Hindi language is being used the most in all these social media.

Hindi is the language of the people and because of the media, today Hindi is being spoken and understood the most in India. Although faulty Hindi or Hinglish is also being used in electronic, social and web media, it cannot be considered as a hindrance in the development of Hindi. Due to this, Hindi is getting rich continuously. Most of the films are being made in Hindi because the film is the most popular medium of entertainment and partly education. Films of desi and foreign languages are being dubbed in Hindi and served to Hindi speaking and understanding audience, due to which its popularity is increasing rapidly.

The first condition for becoming a global language is that more and more people communicate in that language, it has the ability to assimilate the words of other languages, its literature should be rich etc. If seen, Hindi meets all these criteria. This is the reason why it is expanding rapidly in the world.

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Centre has betrayed farmers by bringing in ‘black laws’, alleges SAD leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Afternoon Voice

September 17, 2021

Criticising the Central government for staying apathetic towards the farmers’ issues for a year now, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday said that the government had betrayed the farmers by bringing in ‘black laws’ on September 17, 2020.

Addressing party workers outside Rakabganj gurdwara, Badal was participating in the protest march organised by SAD to observe ‘black day’ on the completion of one year of the enactment of three farm laws.

Mocking the government’s slogan of ‘Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas’, Badal said that with the introduction of these farm laws, the government has brutally crushed all the promises they did to the farmers.

“They promised to double the income of farmers by the year 2022 but introduced these black laws. Not only did they betray their ally parties, but also betrayed all the farmers of this country,” she stated.

“Many people of Punjab shed their blood during the independence struggle. The farmers of Punjab gave food to the people of this nation when the country was begging for food grains from foreign countries,” she added.

Adding that SAD has always stood against brutality, Badal said that they would not stay quiet if the government does not scrap the farm laws. She, along with the SAD workers, raised slogans against the farm laws.

The SAD leader also condemned the government for not letting people inside the national capital. “The farmers, even women, were stopped on the borders. Despite all these restrictions, there are so many of us here to protest against these black laws,” she said.

SAD General Secretary Prem Singh Chandumajra on Thursday had informed that their party will hold a protest march from Gurudwara Rakabganj to Parliament in Delhi and will demand repealing of the three farm laws.

In the wake of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Delhi Police issued a notice to SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and spokesperson Daljit Singh Cheema stating that the protest march will not be allowed in the national capital.

Despite the notice, the SAD president reached Rakabganj gurdwara and the police have tightened security as the SAD workers gathered in large numbers outside the gurdwara to protest against three farm laws.

Farmers have been protesting since November 26 last year against the three newly enacted farm laws: Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.

Farmer leaders and the Centre have held several rounds of talks but the impasse remains.

Modi was first CM to recognise seriousness of climate change: Home Minister Amit Shah

Web Team

September 17, 2021

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that Narendra Modi was the first chief minister in the country to understand the seriousness of the climate change phenomenon and institutionalise its management.

He was speaking after planting a sapling at the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) training ground at Mudkhed in the Nanded district of Maharashtra, which made the security agency achieve the target of one crore sapling plantations in the country.

“When Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat, he was the first to understand the seriousness of climate change and ensure its institutionalised management. Many chief ministers focus on building roads, ensuring education facilities and drinking water schemes. But Modi also worked on climate change and worked for planting saplings,” he said.

Describing global warming and climate change as enemies, Shah said, “We have to protect the environment and natural resources.” He added that the CRPF has achieved the target of planting one crore saplings on Modi’s birthday, which is also the Marathwada Multi Sangram Din (Marathwada Liberation Day).

Shah paid tributes to the country’s first home minister Sardar Patel and the martyrs of the Marathwada liberation movement on the occasion. “Without the CRPF, the country’s internal security is impossible,” he said while hailing the achievements of the 3.25-lakh strong force for meeting every expectation.

He said one crore saplings have been planted by the CRPF in 170 districts across the country.

“The government can plant saplings, but CRPF should protect it. I urge every CRPF jawan to get associated with one sapling,” the minister said.

Sonu Sood – A man of endless controversies and huge appreciations

Vaidehi Taman

September 16, 2021

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The actor with his selfless campaign for homeless migrant workers during lockdown earned him huge gratitude. Interestingly, it gave him a heroic stature that has often eluded him after so many years. Social media was buzzing with news related to his kindness and magnanimity.

In May 2020, during the nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sood helped thousands of stranded Indian migrant workers to reach their homes by arranging buses, special trains, and chartered flights for them. In July 2020 he arranged a chartered flight to bring home over 1,500 Indian students stranded in Kyrgyzstan, flying them from Bishkek to Varanasi. His charity during the pandemic was lauded, and he was hailed as a real-life hero in India.

On 25 July 2020, a video of a farmer’s daughters plowing a field, like bulls with a yoke on their shoulders, went viral over social media. Sood quickly sent the family a tractor. On 5 August 2020, he helped 101 medical students, predominantly from Tamil Nadu, who was stranded in Moscow during the lockdown; reach Chennai safely on a chartered flight arranged by him after they contacted his team for help.

Be it sending migrants back to their home towns through all possible means of transport, or helping someone in need of critical surgery, or just someone needing a house — actor Sonu Sood has been the first one to extend a helping hand during this pandemic. The entire Covid-19 crisis till this point has seen him emerges as a Good Samaritan.

However, of late some people started calling him names and terms such as ‘biggest scam of 2020’. They claim Sood didn’t actually help migrants on such a large scale, and even shared screenshots, alleging that most of the people who sought help from him on Twitter have now deactivated their accounts. Whatever might be the reason for his philanthropic work soon he came in controversies.

He cites an example of one incident, which was questioned, and the people he helped himself came forward to clarify. “Someone said ‘Yeh log to foreign se kisi ko nahi laaye’. A couple of days back, a flight landed from the Philippines, and they replied on that tweet of students ‘You don’t exist, it’s fake. The students sent their boarding passes and flight number, along with college names to check. Suddenly, these trolls vanished. These are paid, people. One-two people run 100-200 accounts,” he shares.

Let us not get into undue controversy, because at least he is helping the needy people. Even if it is a publicity stunt if it’s a kind of his investment to get the attention, what’s wrong? That is helping thousands of people! Even in May 2021 when we were having 4 Lakhs + cases he was still helping people, with the arrangement of Oxygen Cylinders and much more. I don’t really know if a man can do this much for a long time if he doesn’t do it heartily. But still, let us assume it’s publicity…Let it be then! Such publicities are good for the country.

About the so-called deleted accounts of those who asked for help? The actor already clarified that those tweets had sensitive data, which the concerned people seeking help deleted afterwards. “Just think… if someone had shared their Aadhaar card, phone number, and after he had helped them, they delete it. Why would they want their details to remain there?

In fact, the actor requests the trolls to use the money they earn from this, to further help those in need. “Their kitchen runs with this. They earn money on every tweet, which is fair enough. I’m telling them to run their kitchens, but the money which they get from trolling, help someone else, don’t keep it all at home.

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Sonu Sood Tax raids: BJP’s pressure tactics to control political aspirations of actor

Afternoon Voice

September 16, 2021

The raids come days after Sonu Sood’s well-known meeting with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who declared him the brand ambassador for a “Desh ka Mentors” programme for school students.

Sonu Sood told Afternoon Voice, “Let the authorities do their job, I will corporate with them. Will not be able to comment further.”

Though Sonu Sood has always maintained that his charity has nothing to do with politics. And at the same time, he has a soft corner for Shiv Sena in Mumbai and Aam Aadmi Party at large. Somewhere BJP sees him as a threat. Sonu Sood has won millions of hearts not only by his acting but also doing rendering help to migrants during the lockdown. Sood can influence Upcoming UP elections if he joins campaigns.

This morning income Tax officials went to his home in Mumbai, after raids at his offices that ended late last night. Tax-men are investigating Sonu Sood’s property deals with a Lucknow-based real estate company. Officials searched six locations linked to the actor yesterday, including the office of his charity based at his home in Juhu.

Opposition politicians had alleged a witch-hunt against the actor, whose philanthropy during the Covid crisis earned him the tag of the “saviour of migrants”. Sonu Sood arranged buses, trains and even flights to take hundreds of migrants, stranded and helpless in the lockdown, to their home state. During the second wave earlier this year, he organised oxygen for Covid patients.

In 2012, the I-T dept had conducted raids on premises of many Bollywood celebs including Sood. There were reports of allegations against his Mumbai property, which he had bought in Rs.30 crore.

Meanwhile, the BJP-led Union government has earned the disrepute of targeting opposition leaders and anyone critical of the government by using government agencies such as CBI, NIA and ED, along with the Income Tax department.

The polarizing education system has intensified in the NDA II regime

Vaidehi Taman

September 16, 2021

Till now BJP played its politics around condemning Nehru, hating Muslims, protecting cows, drinking its urine, but now they got into your education syllabus.

BJP has an ANTI-SCIENCE agenda because it’s very important for them that their supporters remain blind, emotional, and logicless. If anyone becomes a critical thinker, they would lose precious votes and blind supporters. That’s why we see regular anti-scientific statements coming from them

Modi once said “Our feelings of cold changed, the climate didn’t change”, “Evolution is wrong because we didn’t see ape turning to man” – Junior Education minister in Center Govt. “Cows exhales oxygen” – Education minister of Haryana. “Cow shit helps prevent cancer” – Some random BJP minister. There are many such mindless statements were made by BJP leaders. But their urge of

Commercialization and saffronisation in the education system have intensified.

BJP’s Madhya Pradesh government made the announcement that the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas will be part of the curriculum for undergraduate students and students of engineering will have to learn about Ramsetu — which many in the right-wing considers a feat of engineering.

This will have a 100-mark question paper and include topics such as “Spirituality and religion in root sources of Indian culture”, “Four ages in Vedas, Upanishads and Puranas”, “Difference between Ramayana and Shri Ramcharitmans” and “Incarnation of divine existence”.

There is also a proposal to include the biographies of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder Dr KB Hedgewar, Bharatiya Jan Sangh chief Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and Dr BR Ambedkar among other leaders as part of the first-year foundation course in medicine to instil social and medical ethics in students.

BJP is not only re-writing science but they are possibly rewriting every subject that will benefit their agenda. In early incidences references to Jawaharlal Nehru have been deleted from the new social science textbook for Class VIII. There was no mention of who India’s first prime minister was. The rewriting of history textbooks is an old priority of the Hindu nationalist movement.

In the 1970s, former Jana Sangh members in the Janata Party and the Morarji Desai government had asked for changes in textbooks. In May 1977, Desai has presented a memorandum that sought the withdrawal of four history books — of which three were intended for use in teaching — from public circulation. The books in question were Medieval India by Romila Thapar, Modern India by Bipan Chandra, Freedom Struggle by A. Tripathi, Barun De and Bipan Chandra, and Communalism and the Writing of Indian History by Romila Thapar, Harbans Mukhia and Bipan Chandra.

The memorandum criticized these works above all for not condemning forcefully enough certain Muslim rulers — including Aurangzeb — and emphasizing that freedom struggle leaders such as Bala Gangadhar Tilak and Aurobindo were partly responsible for the antagonism between Hindus and Muslims.

However, the BJP succeeded in changing parts of textbooks in the state they formed a government in the 1990s. After BJP leader Keshubhai Patel took over as chief minister in 1995, the Gujarat State Board of School Textbooks published a Class IX social studies textbook in which Muslims, Christians and Parsis were presented as “foreigners”. It was also written that “in most of the states, the Hindus are a minority and the Muslims, Christians and Sikhs are in a majority”. A Class VIII social studies textbook also included a highly derogatory description of Christian priests: “The accumulation of power and wealth in the hands of the priests resulted in a perversion of the religion. Some of the priests became pleasure-loving and badly behaved.”

In the early 2000s, another social science textbook for Class X described Adolf Hitler in the following terms: “Hitler lent dignity and prestige to the German government within a short time by establishing a strong administrative setup. He created the vast state of Greater Germany. He adopted the policy of opposition towards the Jewish people and advocated the supremacy of the German race.

BJP Minister Satyapal Singh has said Darwin’s theory was “scientifically wrong” since there are no witnesses to humans evolving from apes and it should be removed from science books.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said all ancient civilisations such as Mahenjodaro, Harappa and our culture developed in places which are now in Pakistan. “Why didn’t Pakistan tell (India) to take another name since everything of ‘Bharat’ has emerged from here. So, we are ‘Bharat’ and you take any other name. They did not say this and rather wanted to separate from the name ‘Bharat’. Because they know that with the name ‘Bharat’, Hindutva comes in. And Hindutva is there, so is ‘Bharat’. Gog knows what BJP is going to gain out of all this drill of changing the history and introducing mythology to engineering students.

‘Saffronisation of Education’ – Ramsetu & Ramcharitmanas new engineering syllabus in MP

Afternoon Voice

September 15, 2021

Madhya Pradesh government has introduced “Ramcharitmanas” of Tulsidas as part of the curriculum for undergraduate students and students of engineering will have to learn about Ramsetu — which many in the saffron clan considers a feat of engineering. For the medical stream, students will be offered the option of studying medicine in Hindi. On the approval of the syllabus committee for higher education, “Ramcharit Manas Ke Vyavharik Darshan” (Applied philosophy of Ramcharitmanas) has been introduced as an elective course for first-year BA students from the academic session of 2021-22.

Madhya Pradesh’s Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang told Afternoon Voice, “Very soon a committee would be formed to ensure that medical education courses are arranged in Hindi as well. In the near future, we will start medical studies in Hindi too.”

This will have a 100-mark question paper and include topics such as “Spirituality and religion in root sources of Indian culture”. “Four ages in Vedas, Upanishads and Purans”. “Difference between Ramayana and Shri Ramcharitmans” and “Incarnation of divine existence”.

In the foundation course for English, a preface to Mahabharata by C Rajagopalchari will be taught to first-year students — the objective, according to the order, is to help students develop “leadership ability and humanistic attitude by focusing on various dimensions of personality development”.

Madhya Pradesh made an effort towards having a Hindi curriculum for higher studies earlier. In 2011, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University was established in the state for engineering and medical education in Hindi. But even after 10 years, it has made no headway. The engineering stream was discontinued in 2018 in absence of adequate faculty, translated syllabus, books and students. Medical studies in Hindi have not been started till date.

By way of students, the university has eight peons and two drivers; 74 departments are being handled by 29 teachers — all guest faculty. No recruitment has taken place in the last 10 years.

Higher Education Minister Mohan Yadav said the changes were meant to “bring our glorious past to the fore”. The syllabus is being implemented “on recommendation of scholars”, he added, countering Congress allegations of “saffronisation of education”.

“It has been proved by a NASA study that Ram Setu was a man-made bridge-built millions of years ago,” he said.

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