Karnataka: AAP leader Naganna lodges complaint against Rohith Chakrathirtha over textbook row
India Today
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Naganna registered a complaint against Rohith Chakrathirtha, writer and chairman of the Karnataka textbook review committee. In the complaint, it has been alleged that Rohith has insulted the regional-anthem of Karnataka.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Naganna filed a complaint against Rohith Chakrathirtha, writer and chairman of the Karnataka textbook review committee at Cubbon Park police station in Bengaluru.
The complainant has alleged that Rohit Chakrathirtha had insulted the regional anthem of Karnataka.
He further charges, ‘’The regional anthem ‘Bharata Jananiya Tanujaate Jaya he Karnataak maate’, written by Kuvempu, who is regarded as the greatest Kannada poet of the country has been distorted.’’
Pro-Kannada activists staged a protest in Chikmagalur district against the textbook review committee chairperson’s old Facebook comments on state poet Kuvempu.
In an interview with India Today last month, Rohith clarified that his Facebook comment was a WhatsApp forward message and he has nothing more to do with it.
Karnataka education minister BC Nagesh also defended Rohith previously and said a complaint was filed against him in 2016 and a B-report was filed subsequently. He added that the case did not stand in the court.
Meanwhile, KPCC president DK Shivakumar appealed to all education experts and think tanks to raise their voices against the government’s attempt to manipulate the education system. He slammed the BJP government in Karnataka for ‘politicizing the education system with right-wing agendas’.
