The state school education minister Vasudev Devnani while rejecting allegations about the removal of references to India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru from a Class VII textbook in Rajasthan, said, that the revised syllabus has Mr Nehru's name at 15 places in different textbooks.

Mr Devnani said in a statement, "The government has not omitted Jawaharlal Nehru's name from textbooks. His name is there at 15 places in the revised books. The references to Mr Nehru are available in textbooks of Class 7 (Hindi), Class 9 (Social science) and Class 11 (World History)".

According to him, Mr Nehru's role in the freedom movement, introducing Panchayati Raj system, and the non-aligned movement have been given space in the revised textbooks.

Syllabus from class 1 to 8 is prepared by the State Institute of Education Research and Training (SIERT) and the Board of Secondary Education prepares the syllabus for classes 9 to 12.

"The state government does not favour politics in education," Rajasthan education minister Vasudev Devnani said.

He also said if two or three chapters on Jawaharlal Nehru were not included in the syllabus, they would be added in the textbook in supplementary form.

Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee President Sachin Pilot addressing a protest rally against the removal of Jawaharlal Nehru's references from a school text books.