The Union government itself has clarified in Parliament that the states have the federal freedom not to sign the PM Shri and to withdraw. Since 2016, many educationists, intellectuals and academic critics, have been writing and saying that NEP is a corporate Brahminical Hindu nationalist education policy that contributes to communalization and commercialization of education. Following this, the National Education Policy called NEP 2020 was also passed. Although it was said that a new Kerala education policy would be created with changes, a textbook based entirely on Vedanta was published in the name of Kerala Knowledge System. Higher education in Kerala had already been severely affected with the NEP centralised framework and directive that was implemented in a mad or obedient hurry.