New Delhi:Kapil Sibal, a Rajya Sabha member, stated on Wednesday that in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's India, modern Indian history should begin in 2014. This was an apparent jab at the government over the reports that some references had been removed from the NCERT's new class 12 textbooks.

As the media revealed some deletions from social sciences textbooks for Class 12 by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Kapil Sibal attacked the government.

Taking to tweet, Kapil Sibal said, "NCERT textbooks: Effaced: (1) Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu Muslim unity (2) Banning of RSS (3) All references to Gujarat riots (4) Protests that turned into social movements in contemporary India." "Consistent with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharat modern Indian history should start from 2014…," the former Union minister said. The BJP government came to power in 2014.

It was previously reported that the NCERT's new class 12 history textbooks, which have sections about Mughal courts removed, will be used by Uttar Pradesh government schools starting with the current academic year.

NCERT removed various topics from the curriculum, such as lectures on Mughal courts, from its class 12 textbooks as part of its "syllabus rationalisation" exercise last year, claiming they were "overlapping" and "irrelevant."

NCERT eliminates "Mughal Empire" chapters from Class 12 History textbook