With the recent changes to NCERT textbooks, the Class 10 social science curriculum will now include the Aam Aadmi Party as one of India’s national parties for the first time. However, this addition comes at the expense of excluding the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), the Communist Party of India (CPI), and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) from the list of national parties.
The NCERT’s Democratic Politics II social science textbook will see these changes in Chapter 4, which focuses on Political Parties. These revisions will be found on pages 54 and 55. The forthcoming addition will include information about the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
The National People’s Party (NPP), based in the Northeast, will also be featured in the updated textbook.
NCERT’s reasoning for omitting content related to CPI, NCP, and Trinamool Congress is that the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are no longer national parties, hence their content has been removed. This content has been replaced with information on the Aam Aadmi Party and the National People’s Party, both of which were designated national parties by the Election Commission of India in 2023.
The final paragraph on page 53 of the textbook has been revised, altering the previous version which mentioned that according to the classification, there were seven officially recognized national parties in the nation in 2019.
The new version also mentioned that as per the classification, there are six officially recognized national parties in the country according to the Election Commission of India’s notification issued in 2023.
On the subsequent page, a map displaying all national and state political parties highlights the Aam Aadmi Party’s presence in Punjab. Additionally, the Trinamool Congress is depicted as the predominant party in West Bengal. The upcoming textbooks, which are currently in the process of publication, will incorporate these recent modifications. According to sources within the Ministry of Education, the new textbooks are expected to be completed by either the end of April or mid-May of this year, in time for the academic year 2024-25.
