The headmaster of a authorities college in Karnataka’s Gadag district was allegedly heckled by activists of Sri Rama Sene, a Proper-wing outfit, Tuesday after he requested the scholars to write down an essay on Prophet Muhammed. The activists additionally accused the headmaster of facilitating spiritual conversion of the scholars.
The incident came about within the Authorities Excessive Faculty in Nagavi village. The activists barged into the varsity and heckled headmaster Abdul Munafar Bijapur, leaving the remainder of the folks within the college of 172 college students “in a state of shock”.
In line with Abdul, every week in the past somebody recognized got here to him and provided to sponsor cash for an essay competitors. “With the intention to enhance handwriting amongst college students, we organised an essay competitors primarily based on the ebook named nalleged that I used to be selling Islam which is inaccurate.”
He added, “Each month there are at the very least one or two occasions held the place we conduct competitions. We’ve held programmes and essay competitions on Kanaka Dasa, Purandara Dasa and different personalities too up to now. These essay competitions are held to introduce the scholars to those personalities and to assist them enhance their handwriting.”
Chatting with The Indian Categorical, Raju Khanappanavar of Sri Rama Sene mentioned that they had gone to query the headmaster because the essay competitors was solely on Prophet Mohammed. “The headmaster claims that some individual got here to the varsity and provided Rs 5,000 for the winner and he agreed to permit. As a trainer, he shouldn’t enable promotion of anyone faith. He’s in a method placing different communities in dangerous gentle by selling Islam amongst younger minds,” he mentioned.
The deputy director of public instruction, Gadag, GM Basavalingappa mentioned that he has ordered an inquiry into the incident. He added that he’s writing letters to senior officers concerning the incident. “There have been no authorities circulars to conduct such competitions and he had handed over books to college students to take to their properties. Round 43 college students took half within the competitors. The headmaster defended stating that they celebrated Valmiki Jayanti, Kanaka Jayanti and different occasions too. Nevertheless, there have been authorities orders to conduct them however on this case, there was no such course,” he mentioned.
Bijapur, who has 28 years of expertise in educating, has been working on this college for the final three years. He mentioned, “We’ve maintained all of the information of holding programmes associated to Hindu personalities and others. There are seven academics who work with me and luckily they got here to my rescue.”