Centre’s education policy aimed at controlling universities, imposing RSS ideology: Kharge

New Delhi, Jan 10: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday accused the BJP-RSS of attacking the country’s higher education and alleged that the government’s education policy is aimed at controlling universities, throttling autonomous institutes and imposing RSS ideology on public education.
“The BJP-RSS is continuously attacking higher education in India. Narendra Modi ji, you do blow your own trumpet with ‘Pariksha pe charcha’ and ‘Exam warriors’, but the National Talent Search Examination Scholarship (NTSE) has been discontinued for three years, as revealed by newspapers,” he said in a post on X.
This scheme, he claimed, has been running since 1963 and “it should have cost Rs 40 crores but Rs 62 crores have been spent on Modi ji’s PR”.
Kharge also alleged that the University Grant Commission’s draft regulations 2025 give governors extensive control over vice-chancellor appointments and allow non-academics to hold these posts, which is a direct attack on federalism and state rights.
“The BJP-RSS wants only vice-chancellors from the Sangh Parivar to be appointed,” he alleged.
Earlier, the Congress chief said, the UGC was providing financial aid to universities and the government used to fund UGC.
“The UGC’s budget has been cut by a whopping 61 per cent. Controlling universities, throttling autonomous institutions, imposing RSS’s ‘Manuwadi’ ideology on public education and betraying the youth – this is the education policy of the Modi government,” Kharge alleged. (PTI)