Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

BBS students in MP to now study bout RSS founder and Ambedkar

- S Trust of India

MBBS students in Madpradesh will be lectured t RSS founder KB Hedgebhart­iya Jana Sangh leader dayal Upadhyaya, Swami kanand and B R Ambedkar rt of the first-year foundacour­se, state Education ster Vishwas Sarang said on ay and added the move is d at instilling social and ical ethics among students. edgewar, Upadhyaya, mi Vivekanand are part of Hindutva pantheon of the h, believed to be the ideoal mentor of the ruling tiya Janata Party (BJP).

“The students of the first-year course of MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) will be lectured about Hedgewarji, Upadhyayji, Swami Vivekanand­ji, Ambedkarji and other great personalit­ies. Lessons on these great personalit­ies will inculcate values, principles, social and medical ethics in the students,” Sarang said.

The next academic session for MBBS students is likely to start by this year-end. “The National Medical Council (NMC) has said that ethical values should be the part of the foundation course in the first year (of MBBS). So we thought of incorporat­ing these great personalit­ies for building the character of ideology of Hindutva. Deendayal Upadhyaya was one of the prominent leaders of the Bhartiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of the BJP. “RSS first chief Hedgewarji, Upadhyayaj­i, Vivekanand­ji and BR Ambedkarji were great visionarie­s and human beings. Their lives were based on values. Their thoughts, conduct, and the very personalit­ies are inspiring”, the minister said. He said Hedgewar had actively participat­ed in freedom struggle.

“Deendayalj­i’s thought of ‘Antyodaya’ for helping the last man (the poorest of the poor) was exemplary. Swami Vivekanand­ji travelled far off lands to showcase the Indian vision. B R Ambedkar was born in a poor

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