Bengaluru: Fearing backlash by two of the most dominant communities — Vokkaligas and Lingayats — regarding the row over actions of Rohith Chakrathirtha headed Textbooks Revision Committee, the State Government on Friday dissolved the Committee in a bid to end the raging controversy over school textbooks revision.
CM Basavaraj Bommai, who presided over a meeting at Bengaluru to discuss the row, issued the order scrapping the Committee, late yesterday evening. The decision is seen as the ruling BJP’s efforts to neutralise the threat of backlash from the two powerful communities.
