In the memorandum, Jote leaders said the BNP-Jamaat alliance government had intentionally distorted the history during its five-year rule and forced the teachers to teach the twisted version of history to millions of students.

The non-partisan caretaker government, who is now at the helm, should take steps to incorporate the true history of independence into the textbooks for the next academic year, they said.

Earlier at a rally, Jote President Nasiruddin Yusuf said the textbook board should form a committee of experts who would be entrusted with the task of deleting the distorted part of history and rewriting those.

Nasiruddin Yusuf, Jote General Secretary Golam Kuddus, Ramendu Majumdar, Liberation War Museum trustee Mafidul Huq, Manzarul Islam, Subhash Singha Roy, Jamshed Ahmed Tapan, Rezaul Karim and Mahbub Alam were present during the submission of the memorandum to the textbook board chairman at his office at Motijheel in the city.