This is an archive article published on March 30, 2022

Not Bhagavad Gita, students need to be taught Constitution, writers urge Karnataka CM Bommai in open letter

The letter urged the chief minister to withdraw the guidelines which ban Muslim girls to wear hijab at education institutions and prohibit Muslim shopkeepers from annual temple festivals.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. (Representative image)

2 min readBengaluruMar 30, 2022 06:04 PM IST First published on: Mar 30, 2022 at 06:04 PM IST

In the backdrop of the hijab row and the banning of Muslim shopkeepers from Hindu festivals in Karnataka, 61 eminent personalities, including writers and activists, have written to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai seeking his intervention to protect the peace and harmony of the state.

As the state government mulls introducing Bhagavad Gita in the school curriculum, the letter stated that the students should instead be taught the Constitution of India.

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The letter, signed by writers such as K Marulusiddappa, Prof SG Siddaramaiah, Banjagere Jayaprakash, Banjagere Jayaprakash and many others, urged the chief minister to withdraw the guidelines which ban Muslim girls to wear hijab at education institutions and prohibit Muslim shopkeepers from annual temple festivals.