Leader of the Opposition and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said the BJP government in Karnataka was telling a “series of lies” on school textbook revision issue and behaving “irresponsibly” in an important and sensitive matter related to children’s education.
This came a day after Revenue Minister R. Ashok held a press conference to claim that the revision done during Mr. Siddaramaiah’s regime earlier was aimed at “minority appeasement” and the revision done now by the committee led by Rohith Chakrathirtha was unnecessarily being targeted by the Opposition and a section of writers.
In his 33-point rebuttal with comparison of additions and deletions, he alleged, “Texts that projected ideals of social justice, equality of genders, inclusivity have been removed and replaced with lessons that put forth the ideology of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar.”
