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him to give a calculated political respons · Teachers leave them kids alone question from a student was Modi's pretext to ~~2_13 hours Hey teacher leave them kids alone .

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the PM about education in Bastar, Dantewada, glv:,~,~ reallY Former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan wanted his In a so-called 'live interaction', a girl student from. . f om .

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aside for teachers, rather than about his own birthday. chance to praise BJP CM Raman Singh and say, ·ng girls an .

recall senior studentstaking classes for a day, to give teachers I .

And since 1962, that's how it was. In some schools, one can a land where there has been lot of bloo on harvest.

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a break; or some small ceremony to maketeachers feel special. Modi did notspeak ofthe blood oflittle schoo -got .

At any rate, the day would often be a half-day, to give teachers boys, shed by CRPF in the same areas m 1nngs 3 .

festival gatherings of adivasis. In the 2012 Sarkegud ere.

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a break from hectic teaching schedules. .

massacre, 15-year-old Kaka Rahul and Madkam Ramvilas, .

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Till 2014, when Narendra Modi, in the very opposite of students at a government school in Basaguda w 0 w .

home on vacation were shot dead and branded as Radhakrishnan's spirit, turned a day dedicated to teachers, also didn't speak of the rapes of little adivasi schoolgirls in .

into a day about himself. 'Maoists.' 12-year-old Kaka Saraswati also was killed. Modi Schools were mandated to make arrangements for students .

all over the country to view Modi addressing an assembly of schoolchildren in the capital, and answering 'questions' that Government-run schools in the same region -that the .

Chhattisgarh Home Minister blamed on 'bad stars'! Modi hijacked t he day that Dr. Radhakrishnan dedicated to .

teachers with a mandatoryviewing of his speech. Meanwhile students had been coached to ask. Schools had to change .

timings in the last minute, to suit Modi's schedule. .

So teachers spentthe day making hectic arrangements for Modi's speech rather than enjoying some well-earned rest, Dinanath Batra's textbooks that are mandatoryreading in his nameinto a vehicle for racist ideas. Those textbookstell Gujarat schools, hijack Dr Radhakrishnan himself, turning All over the country, thousands of ill-paid, overworked, a 'tale' of how the country's second president Sarvepallt relaxation and respect. .

exploitative conditions without basicjob-security, salary and .

contractualized 'para-teachers' work in humiliating and Radhakrishnan had told the British that white people were .

training. Modi said not a word on Teachers' Day about like undercooked rotis and Black people were like burnt rotis I .

while Indians were ''rotis cooked right by God." Remember, Modi has written a personal preface to Batra's textbookS. improving theirconditions andregularizing them, in keeping And the same Batra textbooks also have ridiculous stories with theirlong-standing demands. about 'Bal Narendra'-Modi as a child -and how he hid .

The HRD Ministry had said listening to the speech would behind banana trees and waited for Hanuman! .

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not be rna ndatory. But what was the truth? With Modi projecting himself as Teacher No ·1 and 8 t .

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Several schools, including schools in Delhi, warned that and intensified phase. · · .

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Resist Saffronization and 'Thought control't students would face tests on Modi's speech I DPS Struggle for Regularization of School .

Mathura Road warned of'strict action' ifkids failed to .

attend the speech, and Bal Bharati in NOIDA said kids Teachers, End to Contractualization! would be tested on Modi's speech. .

warning schools that "Any laxity in the arrangements The Delhi Directorate of Education issued a directive .

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shall be viewed seriously." Meilem Wangnaolim Chetan Tyag;.

sss SIS Hamid Raza.

l f!li&i.O.C Abha Arya Minhaj Ahmed Khan Meenal GuptaN Sai Balaji' Debottam Saha Pankaj Singh Kushwaha Waqqas MaflmoOQ I.

Central Panel Rama Naga Vijay Kurnar .

.President: Ashutosh Kumar Sandip Mondal Sukrita Lahiri .

President: Anant Prakash Narayan Shashi Shushan Gupta .

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Gen. Secy. Chintu Kumari Shweta Raj, Sandeep Saurav, for Central Campaign Cornrnitt --;:---.._) Jt. Secy.: Shafqat Hussain Butt Samia Khan ee, AI\,)A, JNu .

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