VHP demands vedic education to save India
from Christian influence
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad today demanded scrapping of the "Macaulian system of education" in India and introduction of the Vedas, Upanishads and Indian heritage in school curricula.
"This is important to counter the de-Hinduisation programme of Christian schools and protect our own culture and heritage," VHP working president Ashok Singhal said today.
He told the media in New Delhi that the old education system introduced by Lord Macaulay in 1882 to prepare people to serve the foreign rulers had succeeded in gradually edging out the teaching of the Vedas and Upanishads. Those things need to be changed since India is now independent, he said.
Singhal said Christians run 268 colleges, 3,614 secondary and higher secondary schools, 8,315 pre-primary and primary schools, and 1,185 technical and vocational training schools in India. "What is the harm if the teaching of Indian culture and heritage is also introduced in the curriculum?"
The VHP leader described as the ''greatest insult to Hindus in their own country'' yesterday's incident at the state education ministers' conference in which some ministers objected to the Saraswati Vandana. He said it was the "worst form of communalism" as the ministers had shown disrespect to a Hindu goddess and the Hindu ethos.
UNI
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