<p class="title">The Primary and Secondary Education Department will constitute a new committee to decide about removing Tipu from school textbooks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The action comes in the wake of the absence of subject experts in the Karnataka Textbook Society for submitting a report over continuing Tipu in the school curriculum.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar said at a press meet here on Saturday that the members of the proposed committee would soon be decided.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Denying the allegations that BJP was playing Hindutva card ahead of by-polls in the state, Suresh Kumar said that government had<br />no such agenda and it was only acting on a representation submitted by one of<br />the senior MLAs of the<br />state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The committee’s meeting is scheduled for November 7. “We want to include people who are neutral and we will ensure that there are subject experts on the committee,” he said.</p>
<p class="title">The Primary and Secondary Education Department will constitute a new committee to decide about removing Tipu from school textbooks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The action comes in the wake of the absence of subject experts in the Karnataka Textbook Society for submitting a report over continuing Tipu in the school curriculum.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar said at a press meet here on Saturday that the members of the proposed committee would soon be decided.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Denying the allegations that BJP was playing Hindutva card ahead of by-polls in the state, Suresh Kumar said that government had<br />no such agenda and it was only acting on a representation submitted by one of<br />the senior MLAs of the<br />state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The committee’s meeting is scheduled for November 7. “We want to include people who are neutral and we will ensure that there are subject experts on the committee,” he said.</p>