BENGALURU: Seemingly offended by a boy's utterance that the education minister "doesn't know Kannada" during a virtual interaction, the minister ordered action against the student.
The incident took place at a launch of the state govt's ambitious programme to provide free online coaching to 25,000 students from Karnataka taking CET, JEE, and NEET exams on Wednesday.
Minister for school education and literacy, Madhu Bangarappa, who has often been targeted by the opposition for his poor knowledge of Kannada, initially appeared cool on hearing the boy's remark but soon flew into a rage.
He asked principal secretary (school education), Ritesh Kumar, and PU department director, Sindhu Roopesh to take action against the student.
Education department officials declined to say if they had identified the student and begun any action against him. Some said it was not clear from the audio if the remark was made by a student or an official.