Many writers, intellectuals, politicians and social activists, who took part in the 18-kilometre-long protest march, followed by a public meeting in Tirthahalli on Wednesday, gave a call for a State-wide movement demanding the withdrawal of the textbooks revised by the committee headed by Rohith Chakrathirtha.
The protesters maintained that the revision done by the committee was against the basic principles of the Constitution and the committee insulted great personalities, poets and social reformers of the land. The time has come for the people to raise against the onslaught on the identities of Kannada.
Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah, addressing the public meeting in Tirthahalli, said the textbook committee had distorted the history of great personalities and social reformers. “The committee does not want to accept B.R.Ambedkar as the architect of the Indian Constitution. If Dr. Ambedkar was not the head of the drafting committee, we would not have the Constitution that we have today. The people from RSS do not respect the Constitution as it guarantees equality. The RSS wants inequality so that it could continue to exploit the downtrodden people”, he said.
