Expressing disappointment over the use of school textbooks to “settle scores in a political confrontation”, former Minister and BJP MLC A.H. Vishwanath said the country can ill afford to keep changing the contents of textbooks based on the ruling party’s ideology.
Speaking to reporters in Mysuru on Saturday, Mr. Vishwanath, who earlier served as a Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, said a country will be ruined if its education and culture are ruined. “It is depressing to see all this”, he remarked.
Mr. Vishwanath questioned the credentials of Rohit Chakravarthy, who heads the Textbook Review Committee constituted by the BJP government in the State. “Who is Rohit Chakravarthy?”, he questioned before stating that he was a Sangh Parivar activist and not an education expert.
