Indian Textbook Misrepresents RSS as Gandhi Assasins

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>Don't link Nathuram Godse with us: RSS>Press Trust of India>Indian Express>July

15, 2005>>Coimbatore, July 15: Taking strong objection to linking Nathuram

Godse, who>assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, to RSS in the plus two history textbook

in the>state, Tamil Nadu RSS unit on Friday asked the government to delete the

portion>with immediate effect.>>RSS unit president R.V.S. Marimuthu said that

in lesson 19 under headline ‘India>after Independence’ in the plus two history

textbook, it was mentioned that the>Father of the Nation was killed by a Hindu

fanatic Nathuram Godse, belonging to>RSS.>>Terming the description as “totally

false and a propaganda to tarnish the image>of RSS,” Marimuthu said the RSS

would be forced to take agitational path or>move the court, if the portion was

not deleted with immediate effect.>>He said the Kapur Commission, which

inquired into the incident and the then Home>Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

had clearly said that RSS was not involved at>all in the killing of

Gandhi.>>Asking the state government to direct Tamil Nadu Textbook Corporation

to delete>the portion, which would ‘pollute the young minds,’ immediately,

Marimuthu said>the organisation would resort to agitation in front of schools,

if it was not>removed from the textbook.>>Marimuthu alleged that the majority

of the members in the Textbook Committee>belonged to the Left parties.>