Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday slammed the government over the removal of references to India`s first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in the new NCERT class 11 political science textbook, calling it a "disgrace".

References to freedom fighter and India`s first education minister Azad have been removed from the new class 11 political science textbook by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).