The BJP government in Karnataka on Thursday countered allegations made by Opposition leaders and seers and leaders of various communities on revised school textbooks and said the previous Congress government had made additions and deletions for “appeasement of minority communities.”
The government claimed that the earlier revision had “insulted” Hindu gods, Hindu rulers, rulers of Vijayanagara Empire, Wadiyars of Mysuru, poet Kuvempu, Bengaluru founder Kempe Gowda and Diwan of Mysuru Sir M Visvesvaraya by removing chapters or reducing text related to them in textbooks.
A team of four Cabinet ministers belonging to different communities, led by Revenue Minister R Ashok, defended the revision of textbooks by a committee headed by Rohith Chakrathirtha and said the revised textbooks would be distributed to students in the next few days with a list of seven-eight corrections on architect of the Constitution Dr. B R Ambedkar, social reformer Basavanna and poet Kuvempu.
