Hitting out indirectly at the Sangh Parivar for pushing the saffron agenda in education, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Friday charged that “certain people” were making determined efforts convert India into a “Hindu Rashtra” which would prove to be detrimental to the country’s interests.
Without naming either the Sangh Parivar, Pawar launched a frontal attack on the saffron organisations, by alleging that “certain people” - in their attempt to convert India into a “Hindu Rashtra” -- were out to “distort” history in school text books.
After addressing historians and intellectuals at the YB Chavan Centre here, Pawar debunked the efforts by “certain people” dismantle the very secular foundation of the country. He said that awareness needed to be created among the youth that “certain people” were trying to “corrupt” their minds to spread poison in the society.