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GULBARGA, March 6, 2012: The Karnataka State Youth Congress on Monday slammed the State
Government for“poisoning” the minds of schoolchildren and sowing the seeds of communalism in their
minds by “saffronising” textbooks. Members of the Youth Congress, led by the district president, Naseer
Hussain Ustad took out a procession before staging a protest in front of the Deputy Director of Public
Instruction office. Mr. Ustad demanded the immediate withdrawal of the revised textbooks for 5th and 8th
standards. Several organisations protested against alleged attempts at “saffronising” education by the
State Government here on Monday. Members of the district unit of the Youth Congress took out a
procession and burnt an effigy of the RSS, saying it was responsible for the introduction of communal
elements in school textbooks before submitting a memorandum addressed to the Governor H. R.
Bhardwaj. “The State Government has twisted the history books of 5th and 8th standards. It has chapters
that poison the minds of young children and make them develop bitter feelings for Scheduled Castes
Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Castes and minorities. These books should not just be banned but
burnt,” Youth Congress leader Anand Devappa said. Mohammad Saifuddin demanded that that the
textbooks be withdrawn, the textbook committee be dissolved and a new committee formed with eminent
educationists and senior writers as members. Leaders like Shivakumar Swamy, Nassir Khadri, Hasan
Kamal, D.K. Sanjukumar and Amar Bhange were present. Members of the Muslim Human Rights
Association also staged a dharna . They said the State Government has prepared the textbooks against
the National Curriculum Framework. They also demanded that Urdu be given the status of a second
language in all districts with more than 15 per cent population of Urdu speakers. (The Hindu 6/3/12)
CPI(M) office attacked (26)
KANNUR, March 7, 2012: A local office of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) at Punnad, near Iritty,
was attacked by suspected workers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Monday late night.
Shops at Punnad remained closed on Tuesday in response to the CPI(M)'s call for a local hartal in protest
against the attack. Windowpanes of the office, memorial columns, and campaign hoardings were
destroyed in the attack. The police said that stones were pelted at the EMS Smaraka Mandiram, which is
functioning as the branch committee office of the party, twice at night. The party's local leadership alleged
that the RSS was behind the attack. (The Hindu 7/3/12)
Now VHP deploys cow to fight UPA regime (26)
NEW DELHI, March 7, 2012: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has unleashed a new weapon against the
United Progressive Alliance government: the cow. The VHP-run gaushalas held the latest in a series of
‘cow-promotion and protection camps' here on Sunday to bruit about their claim that the UPA is hostile to
Hinduism's most sacred animal. Pamphlets distributed at the camp railed against a plan, proposed by a
working group framing the 12th Five Year Plan, to permit beef exports. “Hindu society is injured by this
oppressive policy of the UPA government,” senior VHP leader Jugal Kishore said. It was a shame that the
government had approved the selling of the meat of the cow mother,” VHP media chief Vinod Bansal said
the camp was meant to promote products made from cows, which are now “cultivated only for milk.”
Visitors to the camp were greeted with a bewildering array of creams, lotions, face packs, hand-wash,
shampoos, balms, eye-drops and, even floor cleaners derived from panchgavya or a mixture of milk, curd,
ghee, urine and dung. “This revolutionary product helps to control hair fall,” said a VHP worker who had
set up a stall. “Even if you have the driest of hair, this product is guaranteed to prolong greying.” There
was even a product designed to allow the VHP to take a crack at Chief Minister Sheila Dixit in Delhi — a
device to test milk for impurities such as urea, soda, starch and detergent powder. “People should know
that 80 per cent of the city gets impure milk,” another VHP worker told The Hindu . “Until a few years ago,
there would be a ban on ‘paneer' and ‘khoya' products in the summer. Ever since Sheila Dikshit came to
power, the ban has been lifted. Clearly, people are being fed chemicals.” “People think the VHP is an
extremist organisation, but there is a scientific basis to what we are saying here [about the cow], rooted in
our scriptures,” he said. (The Hindu 7/3/12)