Open to forming new panel if error found: Pb CM on history book row

Facing attack from opposition parties over alleged deletion of chapters on Sikh Gurus from class 12 history book, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today said that he is open to constituting a fresh committee to reexamine the history books, if needed.

Responding to a question on the alleged deletion of crucial chapters on Sikh Gurus from the history books, he said it was "ironic" that the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) was questioning the new syllabus since it was their government which formed the committee that reworked the school syllabus.

Singh was speaking at a function organised by a private news channel.

He claimed that errors, if any, in the history syllabus could be ascribed to the committee that the previous SAD-BJP government had constituted to review the syllabus to align it with that of the NCERT.

The chief minister said that he would "have a relook at the committee set up by the erstwhile SAD-BJP government, and if needed, constitute a fresh committee to amend the syllabus in the light of the controversy surrounding the Class 11 and 12 history syllabus."