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SIO protests against Kageri’s ’unconstitutional’ remarks

SIO protests against Kageri’s ’unconstitutional’ remarks


Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, July 19: The Students’ Islamic Organization of India (SIO), DK district unit, organized a protest in front of the DC’s office demanding the immediate resignation of Vishveshwara Heggade Kageri, the state minister for primary and higher education, for his recent provocative statement that those who oppose the Bhagavad Gita campaign should leave India.


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In his protest address, Arafa Manchi said that the minister’s statement is an insult to the Indian Constitution and pointed out that the minister has spoke against the spirit of secularism that the Constitution upholds in spite of being in the responsible position of education minister. Such statements lead to disharmony within the state, he added.
The protestors demanded the immediate resignation of Kageri and urged the CM to exclude him from the cabinet immediately.


Mohammed Nisar, the DK district organizer of the SIO, said that the SIO supports the introduction of human and moral values within the education through religious scriptures, but without hurting the religious sentiments of people belonging to other religious communities.
He said that the process of inculcating moral values through religious scriptures should embrace all religions, castes, and beliefs and should not be an enforcement of one particular faith. Threatening that the minister should bear the consequences of his statement, he said that if the government fails to uphold Constitutional values, the public cannot be expected to do so.

He criticized the government’s failure to enhance the quality of government schools and prevent commercialization of education.

SIO Mangalore President Sarfaraz, SIO West Region President Musthaq Ahmed Patla, and many others also participated in the protest.


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