Mistakes in textbooks: Oikkyo Parishad demands judicial probe

Bangladesh Hindu-Buddha-Christian Oikkyo Parishad today demanded a judicial probe into the embarrassing blunders in school textbooks.

The government should immediately withdraw the erroneous text books, it said.

Textbook “contents have been replaced by religion and gender and communally biased stories, essays, poems and others subject matters,” alleged Advocate Rana Dasgupta, general secretary of the organisation, at a press conference in Dhaka Reporters Unity this morning.

The new textbooks have excluded a number of stories, essays and poems reflecting traditional culture, patriotism, compassion for animals, spirituality and human values,” the veteran lawyer and rights activist observed.

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If this has been done to materialise the agenda of a “vested quarter”, it will jeopardise the age-old Bangla culture, Rana said adding that the country is drifting away from its stance of secularism and non-communalism.

This is reflected in the exclusion and inclusion of subject matters in the newly provided textbooks, he also claimed.

“Those who were involved in the implementation of the anti-people curriculum should immediately be brought to book,” the advocate said.