Why Anti Hindu Unacademy is trending?

Ground Report | New Delhi: Why Anti Hindu Unacademy is trending; Online education technology platform Unacademy has sparked many controversies after a question paper on the Indian Penal Code (IPC) went viral on social media platforms.

Why Anti Hindu Unacademy is trending?

A question read: “In a city named X, a group of Muslim people were carrying out their rally on the occasion of Eid. They were chanting their slogans and were celebrating their festivals. When they were passing through the streets of a Hindu dominated colony, the Hindus of the area started pelting stones at them and claimed that they outraged the religious feelings of Hindus. Is the claim correct?”

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Twitter user wrote "@unacademy You too became the part of this agenda of defaming Hindus... Now you are brainwashing students, i mean really, it doesn't matter for you that how badly it will affect their mind.

@unacademy You too became the part of this agenda of defaming Hindus...
Now you are brainwashing students, i mean really, it doesn't matter for you that how badly it will affect their mind.. 🤬#Unacademy #boycottunacademy #uninstallunacademy #antihinduunacademy pic.twitter.com/b8hWdBmmEg

— 𝓐𝓫𝓱𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓴 𝓚𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪𝓻𝓲 (𝓡𝓐𝓓𝓗𝓔 ) (@radhekandariabh) May 20, 2021

Another user wrote "Oh! Unacademy It's Actually The Reverse For Recent Visuals Just See The Situations Of Bangladesh. Where 5 Hindus Were Killed, With Homes Ransacked & Women Harrased! No Hindus Are Ever Interested To Pelt Stones."

Oh! Unacademy It's Actually The Reverse For Recent Visuals Just See The Situations Of Bangladesh.

Where 5 Hindus Were Killed, With Homes Ransacked & Women Harrased!

No Hindus Are Ever Interested To Pelt Stones.#AntiHinduUnacademy#AntiHinduUnacademy#AntiHinduUnacademy pic.twitter.com/SsGhOTuqTG

— Ankur Shukla (B.J.P) 🇮🇳 (@ANKRULZZzz) October 16, 2021

Hey @unacademy .

May be I should switch to gradeup or applied Gate or any other platforms cause you're a serious offender to my dharma.

Love lectures of RBR on TOC and P&DS but I think you took us(Hindus) for granted.

Remember dharma is above all.#AntiHinduUnacademy pic.twitter.com/fUxpME5Ye9

— The Professor (@The_Proffessor1) October 16, 2021

Journalist Swati Goel Sharma wrote ''Confirmed from @PrakharBansal14 that @unacademy indeed put out this question in an online assignment on IPC. They have now removed it Question says Muslims are carrying out a “rally on Eid” (rally on Eid, really?) and Hindus pelted stones on the rally as it hurt their feelings!

Confirmed from @PrakharBansal14 that @unacademy indeed put out this question in an online assignment on IPC. They have now removed it

Question says Muslims are carrying out a “rally on Eid” (rally on Eid, really?) and Hindus pelted stones on the rally as it hurt their feelings! pic.twitter.com/UK8KJtSHOe

— Swati Goel Sharma (@swati_gs) May 19, 2021

Apology

Online education technology platform Unacademy later issued an apology, Unacademy's statement reads “The test paper has been withdrawn from the platform with immediate effect. In addition, future test papers will be scrutinized and amended in accordance with our policies to ensure it is religion, community and race agnostic,"

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Our official statement in light of the current event. pic.twitter.com/QI8bS3ghbN

— Unacademy (@unacademy) May 19, 2021

The forum further claimed that the question paper was prepared by a third party. Whether it is true or not, a Hinduphobic question was published and it was not taken up until netizens created an uproar. Thus Unacademy was simply trying to save itself from controversy.

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