Hedgewar in text: Siddaramaiah livid

Kalaburagi: Siddaramaiah, the Congress Opposition leader in the Assembly, on Friday said that the state government removed Bhagat Singh from school textbooks and included RSS ideologue Keshav Baliram Hedgewar’s speech but later reinstated the chapter on the freedom fighter after the Congress protested.
He was talking to media persons at Kalaburagi airport on Friday. “Instead of introducing those who became martyrs for the country, now the state government is introducing (to children) the founder of the RSS, Hedagewar,” he said. People like Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, were in the RSS “so introducing such people to children is nothing but traitorous”, Siddaramaiah said.
“Did Hedagewar fight for independence, or go to jail for independence or was he martyred?” Siddaramaiah asked.
He also opined that instead of thinking about the Left or Right-wing, it was more important to think about the country.
He said that the BJP often tweets that he is anti-Dalit but “I have brought reservation for SC/ST contractors and also spent Rs 88,000 crore in my tenure but the present government has spent only Rs 22,000 crore.”
He sought a white paper on funds allocation for SC/ST communities.