After decimating the 34-year old communist rule in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to remove Marx from classrooms. The state's school education syllabus committee has recommended to abolish the philosopher from the higher secondary history syllabus.The Trinamool government after coming to power in May 2011, constituted the syllabus review committee to modernise school syllabus and lessen the burden of unnecessary topics on students.It may be noted that the current school education syllabus meant for state board schools has an entire chapter dedicated to Karl Marx. In class VIII, class XI and class XII in the chapter of industrial revolution Karl Marx and his contribution has been highlighted. Besids, in the HS syllabus too Marx and his ideas have been discussed in great detail.The head of the school education syllabus committee, Avik Majumdar, in a report published in media said, "History syllabus in Bengal gave importance to a particular ideology. History is not only about what happened in the past but it is also about how we look at it. We have tried to give our history syllabus a balanced approach. If there was any excess of anything, including Marx, it has to be done away with."The committee is likley to submit its report to Muktinath Chattopadhyay, president of WBCHSE next week.