Student organizations are furious over the Karnataka government’s decision to remove a text about Bhagat Singh from a Class 10 textbook. The main reason for their anger is that instead of Bhagat Singh’s text, a speech by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar was included in the updated Class 10 Kannada book.
All India Democratic Students Organization (AIDSO) and Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Bachao Samiti (AISEC) are the two student bodies that have opposed the state government’s move. “The founders of our renaissance movement and many great freedom fighters had hoped for democratic, scientific and secular education. But till now all the ruling political parties are working on their own agenda in the textbooks,” the student unions told The Hindu. Quoting said.
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AIDSO said in its statement that a lesson on the great revolutionary Bhagat Singh, who laid down his life at the age of 23, has been left out of the Kannada textbook, but a speech by the RSS founder, which the students’ union said, does not unite the people. but promote communal hatred, it has been added.
In addition to Bhagat Singh’s lessons, his statement claimed texts condemning racial hatred, ‘Mriga Mattu Sundari’ by P. Lankesh, as well as Sara Abubakar’s ‘Yudh’ and AN Murthy Rao’s ‘Tiger Geet’ Like many good teachings have been excluded. ,
“Already, people from across the state had raised questions about the committee constituted by the BJP government and its president for textbook revision. Now it is proved that the government had formed this committee to incorporate the agenda of BJP in education. AIDSO calls upon the people and students to oppose the narrow-minded propaganda of the government,” the student union said. He demanded that the deleted texts be restored at the earliest.
Meanwhile, the Government of Karnataka Thoughts on teaching Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita in schools, Stating that former President APJ Abdul Kalam had talked about the positive impact of a religious textbook, Nagesh said there was nothing wrong with people of different religions listening to the Bhagavad Gita as it guides life.
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