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arrested and remanded in judicial custody. He said that action had been taken in both the cases. Not
satisfied by the reply, the Congress members staged a walk-out shouting anti-BJP and anti-RSS slogans.
(The Hindu 8/2/12)
Hindus being converted to Christianity: VHP (26)
Mysore, February 9, 2012: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad's Hunsur unit in Mysore district has alleged that a
group of people from a church in Hunsur town are converting Hindus into Christianity. They claimed in a
statement here on Wednesday that the members were targeting “gullible” people and “brainwashing”
them. They urged the district administration to initiate action against the “culprits”. They also demanded
that “unauthorised churches” in and around Hunsur be identified and closed down. (The Hindu 9.2.12)
Saffronisation of social studies textbook condemned (26)
Bangalore, February 12, 2012: Speakers of a round-table conference on ‘Saffronisation of Education' held
in the city on Saturday demanded that the State Government should withdraw the draft of the new social
studies textbooks of Standard 5 and 8 that are reported to have a strong saffron slant. While resolving to
call for a bandh of schools and colleges in the State on February 28, the conference also decided to lay
siege to the Department of State Educational Research and Training (DSERT) on February 23.
Organised by Students Federation of India (SFI), the conference saw representation from Samata Sainik
Dal (SSD), Dalit Sangarsh Samiti (Ambedkarvada), Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC),
Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Bharath Jnana Vijnana. M. Venkatswamy from the SSD said the
State Government was poisoning children's minds with communal views at an age when they can be
moulded into good citizens. “These classes [5 and 8] are turning points in a student's life. It is easy to
brainwash their minds at this age. It is unfortunate that the Government is providing them education with
a saffron stint,” he said. “These textbooks not only have distorted historical facts but also a slant typical of
the Hindutva nationalist construction of Indian history,” he said. Pointing out that the Government had
already released Rs.14 crore for publishing the textbooks, Mr. Venkatswamy said: “We need to launch an
agitation to stop this. The draft copies should be burnt in front of Primary and Secondary Education
Minister Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri's house,” he said. Mavalli Shankar of the DSS pointed out that the
committee set up for the draft copy was full of people from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. “They say
the books are being printed following a direction from the National Council of Educational Research and
Training (NCERT). But, it is a fact the Government is misusing the NCERT direction to promote its own
gains,” Mr. Shankar said. “Saffronisation of education started at the time the Government entrusted the
midday meal scheme to organisations such as ISKCON and Adayuma Chetana. The textbook committee
should be dissolved and a new committee comprising secular-minded people should take its place,” he
said. (The Hindu 12/2/12)
Former RSS activist held for Samjhauta bombing (26)
NEW DELHI, February 13, 2012: Less than a week short of the fifth anniversary of the firebombing of the
Samjhauta Express, detectives of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) have held a Madhya Pradesh
resident on suspicion of having participated in the terrorist cell which carried out the attack — the first
breakthrough in over a year against a core group of fugitives who have been eluded arrest since 2008.
Kamal Chauhan, NIA sources have told The Hindu, is believed to be one of the four men who planted
incendiary devices on the Lahore-bound train on February 18, 2007, killing 68 people. “We believe
Chauhan has critical information that could lead us to the rest of the plotters,” an NIA official said. The
Mhow-born Chauhan, a long-standing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist, is the second alleged
perpetrator of the bombing to be held. Lokesh Sharma, an Indore-based Hindutva activist held in June
2010 for having participated in the meeting in which the terrorist attack was planned, will now face fresh
charges of having participated in the bombing itself, the sources said. The bombs, the NIA now believes,
were manufactured by fugitive Hindutva terrorist Sandeep Dange, an RSS leader who, investigators say,