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Amid a brewing contention implicit a three-day lawsuit astatine the State-run Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) successful Mysuru to people 60 years of Hindutva ideologue and person of Bharatiya Jana Sangh Deendayal Upadhyaya’s lectures, which was acceptable to commence connected March 25, the Karnataka authorities connected Monday (March 23, 2026) said that the lawsuit cannot beryllium held connected the KSOU campus.
“What was the request to organise it? There is simply a protocol violation. There was nary mentation arsenic to however the lawsuit could assistance higher education. They person to postpone the programme,” Higher Education Minister M.C. Sudhakar told Legislative Council aft Congress subordinate Ramesh Babu raised the issue. “They cannot organise it successful KSOU. He (Vice Chancellor Sharanappa V. Halase) has been asked to explicate the reason. Action volition beryllium taken based connected an inquiry,” the Minister said.
“Ekatma Manav Darshan Bharat’s Worldview,” a three-day lawsuit commemorating 60 years of Deendayal Upadhyaya’s lectures connected Ekatma Manav Darshan had been planned to beryllium organised from March 25 astatine KSOU successful collaboration with Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation and Prajna Pravah.
Dr. Sudhakar said, “Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan, and Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, who is besides the Chancellor of (State-run) universities, person been invited. I did not adjacent cognize astir the lawsuit till Sunday (March 22) day contempt being Pro Chancellor (of KSOU). When I asked the Vice chancellor, helium said helium besides did not cognize astir the event, but his sanction is determination successful the reception committee.”
He said that authorities was besides not informed astir the event. “It is simply a backstage initiative. It was antithetic if the venue is fixed connected rent. But successful this case, KSOU is seen sponsoring the lawsuit and providing the space.” Other invitees to the lawsuit included BJP National General Secretary B.L. Santosh, Editor of the RSS mouthpiece Organiser Weekly Prafulla Ketkar, VCs of Jawaharlal Nehru University Santishree D. Pandit and Gujarat University Neerja A. Gupta, Shatavadhani R. Ganesh, among others.
Earlier, raising the contented Congress subordinate Ramesh Babu took objection to the lawsuit being held astatine KSOU that did not person immoderate practice from the State authorities nor had immoderate acquisition adept attending it, which violated the protocol.
“KSOU is simply a State-run assemblage and should enactment wrong the parameters acceptable by the government. It has to organise events connected acquisition and related activities. It is spending authorities money, but has not invited immoderate 1 from the government.” He sought enactment against the Vice Chancellor for misusing his powers and furthering idiosyncratic interest.
