Bengal Adds Mookerjee Lessons, Drops Singur Chapter
West Bengal's government plans to add lessons on Syama Prasad Mookerjee to school courses. The chapter on the Singur movement against land acquisition will be removed from Class 8 textbooks. Information and Communication Technology will also be added as a school subject.
Context
Context: Singur was the site of a 2006 to 2008 protest over farmland taken for the Tata Nano car plant, a major political dispute. Syama Prasad Mookerjee was a Bengal leader who founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, a forerunner of the BJP.
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