CPI candidate from Bihar's Begusarai Lok Sabha seat Kanhaiya Kumar has said that this election is a battle between people who want to educate the youth and those who want them to make 'pakodas'.
Referring to the CBSE's decision to scrap chapters on 'democracy and diversity' from the political science textbook of class 9, he said, "If we remain silent today, democracy would be erased from the country tomorrow."
Asked about his entry into politics, Kumar said, "I have not decided anything. Destiny and circumstances decide everything. When I was born in Begusarai, I had not imagined that I will got to Delhi some day. In Delhi, I had not thought that I would go to JNU and become president of the students' union."
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