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Shivamogga-based advocator and Kuvempu University syndicate subordinate K.P. Sripal has written to Vice-chancellor Professor Sharath Ananthamurthy to cancel a one-day seminar connected Bhagavad Gita and Prevention of Crime, scheduled to beryllium held connected the field connected November 18.
In a missive to the V-C connected November 17, Mr. Sripal took objection to holding the seminar connected the taxable successful a assemblage named aft Kuvempu, who gave the Vishwamanava Sandesha (the connection of cosmopolitan man). “The seminar organised connected the field is portion of the communal ideology. The Sangh Parivar is entering assemblage campuses done assorted programmes to capable students’ minds with the Manusmriti much than the Constitution. The Bhagavad Gita Abhiyana is 1 specified programme,” helium wrote.
Further, helium stated that, according to his understanding, the Bhagavad Gita justified the Chaturvarna system, which divides people. The strategy is contrary to the cardinal ideals of the Constitution of India. “It is the work of everyone to guarantee definite ideologies bash not creep into universities,” helium said.
He remarked that a bulk of the radical being invited to talk astatine the seminar were progressive members of an organisation that propagates right-wing ideology and opposes Mahatma Gandhi, Basavanna and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
