AMN / WEB DESK
The Karnataka Cabinet has decided to roll back the Anti Conversion law proposed by the previous BJP government. The law was passed in the Legislative Assembly in September last year but was not tabled in the Legislative Council.
The law had proposed imprisonment of three to five years along with a fine of 25000 rupees for forced conversion and employing fraudulent means to marry Hindu girls in the State. T
he Cabinet also decided today to remove chapters from school textbooks on RSS founder K B Hedgewar, Veer Savarkar and a lesson by Chakravarti Sulibele.
In this place, the education department will introduce a supplementary booklet containing chapters on Indira Gandhi’s letter to her father Pandit Nehru, a chapter on Savitri Bai Phule, and another on B R Ambedkar. The Cabinet also decided to introduce the reading of the Preamble of the Constitution in all the schools and colleges. The Cabinet has also decided to withdraw the APMC Act introduced by the previous BJP government.