CM Omar Abdullah assures no deletion of Sheikh-ul-Alam Chapter from textbook

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  • 19 Dec 2024

Responding to the controversy over the removal of a chapter on the revered Sufi saint Sheikh-ul-Alam from the Class IX textbook, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah assured that the chapter would not be removed. This statement came in response to a post by Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami on X, urging the Chief Minister's intervention on the matter. In his reply, the Chief Minister wrote, "assure @tarigami Sb that there will be no deletion of the chapter. The matter has already been taken up by @sakinaitoo sahiba as soon as this was brought to the attention of the government." Tarigami had already wrote on X: It is deeply troubling that an entire chapter on the revered Sufi saint Sheikh-ul-Alam has been dropped from the Class IX textbook. This blue-pencilling, carried out prior to the Assembly polls, is unacceptable to a society rooted in rich Sufi traditions. 1/" "I urge Chief Minister @OmarAbdullah to intervene and ensure that this crucial chapter is reinstated, thereby preserving and honoring our rich cultural and Sufi heritage 2/2 ".

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