'What is wrong with saffronisation?': Vice-President asks as BJP govts plan to introduce Gita in schools

The controversy around the banning of hijab inside classrooms in Karnataka has hardly died down and now the state’s education may face another one.

The Basavraj Bommai-led BJP govt in Karnataka is mulling introducting of the Bhagavad Gita as part of its moral science syllabus from the next academic year.

BC Nagesh, the state education minister has said that an expert committee will be set up to discussion the introduction of moral science as the subject and what should be included in it's syllabus.

'Bhagwat Gita is not only for Hindus, it is for all. If experts feel Gita should be introduced in schools then it should be introduced,' he said.

The Congress, which is the opposition party in state, has dismissed the idea as a political gimmick and advised BJP to concentrate on helping students make up for the 2 years they lost to the pandemic

Karnataka govt’s plans to teach the Bhagavad Gita in schools follows Gujarat govt’s decision to make the Hindu religious scripture part of syllabus Class 6 onwards from the next academic year.

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While political leaders are calling introduction of Hindu religious text in schools an attempt to saffronise the education system, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu has said that he doesn’t see anything wrong in it.

The Vice President at an event in Haridwar said that BJP is accused of saffronising the education but ‘what is wrong with saffron?’