Expressing concern that communal forces are bringing a bad name to Karnataka as the society is being communalised, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday said that Karnataka is being turned into a communal laboratory like some North Indian States.
“It is dangerous to the State. Sangh Parivar is bringing different agendas to the forefront and is in the process of saffronising the next generation through saffronisation of textbooks. Progressive thinkers have been sacrificed in the textbook revision process,” Mr. Vijayan, speaking extensively on communal forces in Karnataka and the country, said at the State-level convention of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Bagepalli, about 100 km from here.
Mr. Vijayan earlier met Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in Bengaluru to discuss rail connectivity issues between the two States. “History is being changed. Sri Narayana Guru and Periyar Ramaswamy have been dropped while Bhagat Singh has been sidelined. Sara Abubacker’s writing has been dropped. RSS ideologue Hedgewar has been added. Why are such things being done? Minds are being communalised,” he alleged.
