Bihar Congress President Ashok Chaudhary strongly condemned the description terming it as "insult to the nation" and demanded dropping of the chapter from the syllabus.
He said in a statement here that the way sacrifice of Khudiram Bose is taught in class eight as per syllabus approved by the West Bengal government, it appeared that the government of that state "was deliberately insulting" people who sacrificed their life for the country.
He said Khudiram Bose who was hanged at the age of 18 in 1908 in Muzaffarpur in Bihar, is revered by countrymen and many government institutions in Bihar and West Bengal are named after him.
JD(U) Legislator Neeraj Kumar today wrote a letter to the West Bengal Chief Minister to draw her attention to the issue, a copy of which was made available to the press.
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Kumar said people of Mokama observe Chaki's martyrdom every year and a campaign is on to install his statue at the venue of his martyrdom within Railway station premises in Mokama.
He urged Mamata Banerjee to get the fact corrected in the syllabus and order punishment of officials responsible for this "wrong portrayal."
Prafulla Chaki was one of the revolutionaries of the freedom struggle who along with Khudiram Bose had thrown a bomb on a carriage in Muzzafarpur on April 30, 1908 in which a British woman and her daughter were killed.