{"id":51124,"date":"2014-05-30T09:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T06:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=51124"},"modified":"2014-05-30T09:58:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T06:58:04","slug":"indian-pm-doesnt-want-inclusion-of-his-name-in-school-books-51124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/indian-pm-doesnt-want-inclusion-of-his-name-in-school-books-51124\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian PM doesn\u2019t want inclusion of his name in school books"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51126\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51126\" alt=\"Indian PM Narendra Modi. File Pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Indian-PM-Modi-Nationalturk-30.jpg\" width=\"197\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Indian-PM-Modi-Nationalturk-30.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Indian-PM-Modi-Nationalturk-30-169x220.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian PM Narendra Modi. File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>India\u2019s \u00a0Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has said his name should not be included in the school books.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, May 30\/Nationalturk \u2013 India\u2019s newly elected Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, on Friday said his name should not be included in the school books.<\/p>\n<p>There were media reports that some states where Modi\u2019s rightwing Hindu party BJP rules were planning to introduce curriculum in schools on his name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Am reading in the news that some states want to include Narendra Modi`s life struggles as a part of school curriculum,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>He said he firmly believes that the life story of living individuals should not be included as a part of the school curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia has a rich history of several stalwarts who made India what it is today. Young minds should read about these greats and emulate them,\u201d added Indian PM, who took charge on May 26.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Proposal to include Modi\u2019s chapter in school books\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>BJP government in Indian State of Madhya Pradesh was considering proposals to include a chapter on Modi in school textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;School textbooks already have chapters on biographies of freedom fighters and even Prime Ministers who have done well. So a biography of Modi in textbooks will inspire students, as he has had a humble beginning as a tea vendor and now he has become the Prime Minister,&#8221; Madhya Pradesh school education minister Paras Jain was quoted as saying by Indian TV news channel, NDTV.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia News \/ NationalTurk India News\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s  Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has said his name should not be included in the school books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[41694,69917,2546,56888,43968,47861,41689,44200,69918,51118,69916,69919,50023],"class_list":["post-51124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-bjp","tag-curriculum","tag-india","tag-indias-prime-minister","tag-indian-state","tag-madhya-pradesh","tag-narendra-modi","tag-ndtv","tag-rich-history","tag-rightwing-hindu-party","tag-school-books","tag-stalwarts","tag-tweeted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}