The head of the Karnataka Textbook Review Committee, Rohit Chakratirtha, has been embroiled in another controversy after a series of tweets posted on online porn in 2014 and 2015. Posting a screenshot of the tweet, a Twitter user said on Wednesday, “Tweet from a fellow who heads the curriculum committee for school lessons in Karnataka.”
Admitting that the tweets were from his account, Chakratirth was taken aback and said that the posts were meant to be “upbeat”. “It is not necessary that you are now the same as you were a decade ago. We all go through transformational changes in life. We were all excited about social media platforms in those days and I just posted a one-liner which was already in a public place,” he added. Indian Express,
has gone to Chakratirth getting a lot of flak To introduce changes in Class 10 Kannada and Social Science textbooks. He has come under fire for including RSS founder KB Hedgewar’s speech in a Kannada textbook and for one Facebook The post which was a parody of the state anthem written by the national poet Kuvempu.
“I myself wrote an article on porn affecting children. Users who are mining these tweets must also remove other articles on education I wrote. Why are they so selective about positions?” Chakratirtha asked. “There is no link between social media posts on porn and the textbook review committee. People are looking for a way to surround me and this is happening for the last 10 years. I’m not surprised.”
on Wednesday, Aam Aadmi Party Activist BT Naganna had also filed a police complaint against Chakratirtha at Cubbon Park police station for insulting the national anthem ‘Jaya Bharat Jananiya Tanujathe’ and national poet Kuvempu in a Facebook post in 2017.