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Remarks against Jats to be removed: Arjun Singh
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 23
Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh has assured Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda that derogatory remarks against the Jat community in textbooks published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) would be removed with immediate effect.

Mr Hooda, who led a delegation, which met Mr Arjun Singh here yesterday, demanded removal of derogatory remarks against the Jat community in the NCERT textbooks. He apprised the Minister of resentment in the Jat community due to publication of such remarks. The Chief Minister said that necessary guidelines should be issued to ensure that such remarks against any caste or community did not find a place in the textbooks.

Mr Singh said care would be taken to ensure that derogatory remarks against any caste or community do not get into textbooks.

According to an official spokesman, members of delegation included Delhi Health Minister Yoganand Shastri, Mr Sajjan Kumar and Mr Harender Malik, MPs, former MP Sona Ram Chaudhry and president of All India Jat Mahasabha Virender Singh.

Several orgainsations and political parties, including the INLD, had held protests demanding removal of derogatory remarks against the Jat community from textbooks.