Poets, academicians, teachers, lawyers, political leaders, civil society groups, seers and hundreds of people from all walks of life held a protest rally from Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna Railway station to Freedom Park on Saturday demanding the withdrawal of textbooks revised by the Rohit Chakrathirtha committee.
At Freedom Park, the congregation was joined by former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda and Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar who extended their full support to the protest.
The protests were led by the umbrella group Vishwa Manava Kranthikari Mahakavi Kuvempu Horata Samiti. Karnataka Rakshana Vedike was also among the organisations that participated in the protest. The protesters said that in the process of revising textbooks, the committee disrespected visionaries like Basavanna, Kuvempu and B.R. Ambedkar and “twisted facts” which is why those textbooks were “unconstitutional” and should not be prescribed for students. The meeting at Freedom Park was inaugurated by writer Baraguru Ramachandrappa, reading out the preamble of the Constitution.
