India, Aug. 16 -- The Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday traded barbs over NCERT's new special module, which holds the grand old party, Muslim League leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and the last Viceroy of India Lord Louis Mountbatten responsible for Partition. While the Opposition party has demanded that the module be scrapped and even "burnt," the ruling BJP has accused the Congress party of repeating its "appeasement politics" and refusing to confront historical truth.

As first reported by HT, a new special module created by the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) on "Partition Horrors Remembrance Day" (August 14) holds three people responsible: "Jinnah, who demanded it; second, the Congress, whi...