English vs Konkani, BJP vs RSS: The battle over primary education in Goa

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Written by Harsha Raj Gatty | Panaji | Published:May 9, 2016 3:56 am
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Why is the BJP in Goa in a face-off with the local leadership of the party?s parent body, the RSS?

Ahead of the 2012 Assembly elections, the BJP, which was then in opposition, led a movement with the RSS and the Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM) to promote ?regional languages? such as Konkani and Marathi as the medium of instruction (MOI) in the state?s primary schools ? ostensibly to protect and promote ?local? languages. It strongly opposed grants-in-aid for English-medium primary schools, and promised to scrap them if voted to power. During the elections, the BJP gained both from the resonance of the campaign at the level of the gram panchayats, as well as the strategic alliance it had with leaders of the sizeable Catholic minority. However, after coming to power, the party has struggled to reconcile the two seemingly contradictory positions. The RSS and the BBSM have grown increasingly militant ? with the RSS leading its familiar outcry against ?minority appeasement? and warning that if the state government didn?t stop grants to English-medium schools by June 1, it would ?find an alternative to the BJP?.
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