Patna: BJP on Tuesday attacked the Grand Alliance government over alleged ‘curtailment’ of holidays in government schools on the occasion of many Hindu festivals and adopting a policy to appease the minority community, claiming that the number of holidays for some Muslim festivals have been “increased”. The BJP and the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad also asked the state government to withdraw the new holiday calendar or they would launch a statewide agitation against the controversial decision. State’s education minister Prof Chandrashekhar, however, said, “The new holiday calendar was not decided at the level of the state government. If there is any discrepancy, it will be revised.” As the controversy took a political turn, the education department on Tuesday evening came…
