The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to drop a comprehension from their class 10th question paper after Congress leader Sonia Gandhi criticised it in the Parliament’s ongoing Winter Session today, on December 13. She called the passage ‘blatantly misogynist’.
The comprehension’s concluding paragraph stated: “What people were slow to observe was that the emancipation of the wife destroyed the parent’s authority over the children. The mother did not exemplify the obedience upon which she still tried to insist… In bringing the man down from his pedestal, the wife and the mother deprived herself, in fact, of the means of discipline.”
The Congress supremo, stated that the passage ‘reflects extremely poorly on standards on education and testing’. She also asked CBSE to apologise and withdraw the question immediately.
“The passage contains atrocious statements, such as ‘women gaining independence is the main reason for a wide variety of social and family problems’. The entire passage is riddled with such condemnable ideas and the questions that follow are equally nonsensical,” Gandhi was quoted in the Lok Sabha.
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Also, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary, Congress, took to Twitter to target the BJP government for promoting sexism in the educational institutes.
“Unbelievable! Are we really teaching children this drivel? Clearly the BJP Government endorses these retrograde views on women, why else would they feature in the CBSE curriculum?” she stated.
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Minutes after, the Board announced that the passage had been dropped and the students will be awarded full marks for passage No. 1 for all sets of the Class 10 CBSE English Language and Literature.
The Board stated that the question is not in accordance with the guidelines of the board with regard to the setting of question papers.
