NCERT to add AAP to list of national parties in Class 10 social science textbook

Amid the spate of changing syllabi in the NCERT textbooks, it is perhaps for the first time that the Class 10 social science textbook will see the addition of the Aam Aadmi Party to the list of national parties in India.

While the AAP is being added, the content related to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), the Communist Party of India (CPI) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are dropped from the list of national parties.

The social science textbook, called Democratic Politics II, will see these editions in chapter 4 - Political Parties. The changes will be reflected on pages 54 and 55, according to the



NCERT.

The following content will be added: "Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) -- Formed on 26 November 2012, following the 2011 anti-corruption movement. The party was founded on the idea of accountability, clean administration, transparency and good governance. In the year after its formation, AAP emerged as the second largest party in the Delhi Legislative Assembly election. It formed a government with the support of Indian National Congress (INC). It also emerged as the third front in the politics of Gujarat after the 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election. Presently, AAP formed governments in Punjab and Delhi. In the Lok Sabha election held in 2019, it secured one seat in the Lok Sabha."