Sex education to young children against India's cultural ethos: BJ

New Delhi, May 18 (UNI) Calling on the people to oppose the new sex education programme of the Delhi government begning this session, the BJP today said the erroneous step would prove disastrous for the character of youth and moral fabric of the nation.

Talking to mediapersons here Delhi state BJP president Harshvardhan said in the rush to begin sex education from this session Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has overlooked the disastrous consequences of this erroneous programme where small children would be taught about masturbation, oral sex and homosexuality and not its aftermaths.

Instead of encouraging moral education, yoga, sports and positive health education the Sheila Dikshit government was encouraging sex education which has not just been rejected by the West but was also alien to our cultural ethos, he further said.

When the West is discarding things after studying the consequences of immoral acts over decades, we in India are adopting them despite their being widely opposed at all levels and even by the teachers, said the former WHO doctor.

''The sex education programme was being opposed even in Kerala where literacy rate was nearly 100 per cent.'' All this was being promoted under the garb of spreading awareness on AIDS at the behest of foreign multi-nationals who were unaware of India's cultural roots and its heritage of joint family and moral education, Mr Harshvardhan added.

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