Strongly defending the revision of textbooks that has stirred a huge controversy, Primary and Secondary Education Minister B.C. Nagesh insisted that the government had not dropped content related to freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, social reformer Narayana Guru, rationalist Periyar Ramaswamy or 19th century Mysuru king Tipu Sultan.
Addressing a press conference, he said the committee had only expanded on these ideas by including more historically important figures such as Chandrashekar Azad, Rajguru, Sukhdev Singh, and others and editing some content.
