Chapter on Emergency will be included in Madhya Pradesh school curricula: Chief Minister Mohan Yadav
The announcement came on the day that Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla read out a resolution against the imposition of the Emergency, in June 1975, in Parliament.
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A chapter on the excesses of the Emergency will be included in Madhya Pradesh school curricula, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced on Wednesday.
This came on the same day that newly-elected Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla read out a resolution in Parliament describing the imposition of the Emergency in 1975 – by the Congress government at the time – as a “black chapter” in India’s history.
Birla read out the resolution, which was moved a day after the 49th anniversary of the imposition of the Emergency, amid protests from the Opposition benches.
Yadav, while speaking at the Loktantra Senani Regional Conference in Bhopal on Wednesday, claimed that the inclusion of a chapter on the Emergency in Madhya Pradesh’s school curricula had been a demand of those who had been imprisoned at the time.
The Bharatiya Janata Party leader said that the demand would certainly be fulfilled.
मुख्यमंत्री डॉ. मोहन यादव के मुख्य आतिथ्य में मुख्यमंत्री निवास, भोपाल में आयोजित 'लोकतंत्र सेनानी प्रादेशिक सम्मेलन' https://t.co/plmuXLet2j— Chief Minister, MP (@CMMadhyaPradesh) June 26, 2024
Yadav also announced a series of welfare measures for those who had protested the Emergency, referring to them as “loktantra senanis”, or soldiers of democracy. He said that they would be allowed to stay in government-run circuit houses and rest houses for up to three days with...
