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January 16, 2020

India: NGO Distributes School Notebooks with Savarkar's Pitcure on the Cover, in State-funded school in Madhya Pradesh

The Quint

MP Principal Suspended Over Notebooks With Savarkar’s Picture
PTI Updated: 08H 58M AGO

The Congress government in Madhya Pradesh has suspended the principal of a government-run school at Malwasa in Ratlam district over the distribution of notebooks carrying the picture of Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar on the cover.

Principal RN Kerawat was suspended on Tuesday, 14 January, night, over two months after the notebooks were distributed to the students of his school by an organisation, an official said on Wednesday. "The divisional commissioner (Ujjain division) suspended RN Kerawat, principal of Malwasa's government high school, on Tuesday on the basis of an inquiry report," Ratlam district education officer KC Sharma said.

"An organisation named Veer Savarkar Manch had distributed free long notebooks to the students of the government high school on 4 November last year. These notebooks carried picture of Veer Savarkar on the cover," he said.
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