Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Yuva Morcha workers on Wednesday held a protest against the state education minister Madhu Bangarappa, for removing chapters on Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar and RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, while he was holding a meeting with officials in Shivamogga, people familiar with the matter said.
The BJP workers, wearing black bands and clothes, stormed into the Zilla Panchayat office where the education minister was holding a meeting, and raised slogans against Bangarappa and the Congress government.
Bangarappa, who is also the Shivamogga district in-charge minister, had called a meeting of the officials at the Zilla panchayat office to review the rain-related damage in the district.
The protesters raised slogan in favour of Savarkar and Hedgewar, causing ruckus in the meeting hall. Meanwhile, Shivamogga superintendent of police (SP) GK Mithun Kumar along with other police personnel, took them away from the hall and detained them, according to officials.
In an effort to rectify the alleged distortion of history and altercation of textbooks by the previous BJP government, the Karnataka cabinet in June, had approved the revision of Social Science and Kannada textbooks for classes 6 to 10 in state schools…
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