Scan textbooks for BJP agenda: Mizo Opp

AIZAWL, March 26: Opposition Mizoram People's Conference (MPC) has expressed fear that BJP's "hidden agenda" to dilute culture and religion of the Mizos through textbooks in elementary education and high school might be overlooked by the state government, reports PTI. Raising the issue during Question Hour in the Assembly on March 23, Opposition leader and MPC chief Lalhmingthanga asked the State School Education Minister F Malsawma whether the state government was aware of the BJP's hidden agenda. Lalhmingthanga alleged that change in academic session adaptation of Central Board of School syllabus and utilisation of NCERT textbooks were the Centre's imposition of its National Education Policy in the State which did not suit the people of Mizoram. He urged the state government to carefully study the textbooks and policy in order to ensure that the religion and culture of the people of Mizoram would not be diluted by the BJP's hidden agenda. BNLF man nabbed : Mizoram police has arrested a BNLF insurgent, involved in the abduction of a school teacher last year. Busho Ranjan Chakma was arrested on March 18 at the Mizoram-Tripura-Bangladesh trijunction village of Khantland, Laldina told PTI over phone from Mamit. Chakma told his interrogators that he was involved in the kidnapping of the teacher on April 19, 2000, near Mizoram-Tripura border village of New Kawnpui and was kept in captivity for a month.