Following outrage and protests over exclusion of a lesson on Bhagat Singh by senior scholar G. Ramakrishna from Class X First Language Kannada textbook, the Government has now re-introduced it.
However, along with this, the Education Department has decided to include a lesson by Chakravarthi Sulibele, founder of Yuva Brigade and a strong supporter of Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The lesson authored by him, “Taayi Bharatiya Amara Putraru” (Mother Bharati’s immortal sons), is now part of the non-detailed text.
Earlier, the textbook revision committee, headed by Rohith Chakrathirtha, had dropped the lesson authored by Prof. Ramakrishna. It had added a speech by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar as part of the textbook. Both these were met with protests from various quarters.
