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Ambedkar cartoon row: Sibal says sorry

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New Delhi: A cartoon on Dalit icon BR Ambedkar in an NCERT textbook rocked Parliament on Friday, prompting the government to apologise and order removal of the ‘objectionable’ sketch.

After Opposition leaders created an uproar over the cartoon they said was insulting, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said he was not personally responsible for the row but had ‘no hesitation in apologising to the nation’.

He said a committee of the HRD ministry was already reviewing all such ‘objectionable matters in textbooks’.

According to Sibal, the issue came to his notice last month and he had decided that the cartoon be withdrawn from the NCERT books on political science. (IANS)

 

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