“Textbooks should not be tools for spreading the agenda of political parties,” D.K. Shivakumar, KPCC president, said in Belagavi recently.
He alleged that the ruling BJP was spreading the poison of communalism among young minds. “One of the methods of doing this is to change textbooks in the name of revision. Why is the BJP trying to change textbooks and the education system that has been prevalent for over four decades? Have the children who studied from these books not grown up to be educated, and responsible citizens?,” he said.
