Overview

• Speaking in Hyderabad, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi alleged the BJP changed the NCERT syllabus to hold Muslims responsible for Partition and rejected that framing.
• He also said textbooks have removed the reasons for Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, with the revised text stating only that Nathuram Godse shot him on January 30, 1948.
• New Partition Horrors Remembrance Day modules state that Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Congress leaders and then Viceroy Lord Mountbatten were the main figures responsible for Partition.
• NCERT’s broader revisions shorten or drop chapters across Classes 6–12, including removing Class 7 lessons on the Mughals and the Delhi Sultanate and altering later content to stress critical viewpoints.
• BJP figures have defended the modules, with Assam Deputy Speaker Numal Momin likening Rahul Gandhi to Jinnah and calling the materials a revelation of the culprits of Partition.