CBSE textbook exposes reality over IIOJK as not a part of India.

ISLAMABAD -- A fresh controversy gripped India when a Twitter handle yesterday posted the cover page of a Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Class 10 French textbook, showing the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) as not an integral part of India.

According to Indian media, the Twitter handle 'Legal Rights Observatory- LRO' or @LegalLro claims to be an NGO which carries out legal activism in the national interest and has over 47,000 followers, posted 'Hey @cbseindia29 is this true? Don't U recognize Jammu n Kashmir as integral part of India?

Later, it went on to tag Indian Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Home Minister Amit Shah.

The leading Indian media highlighted that NCERT dropped several topics from textbooks of Classes 6 to 12 in an effort to rationalise the syllabus for the academic session 2022-23 to ease the load...

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