Clarify & withdraw immediately the controversial and highly misleading advertisement issued by the Department of Minorities – Ravi Kumar
Bengaluru, November 11: Chief Whip of the Opposition in Legislative Council N. Ravi Kumar has urged Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar to clarify as well as withdraw a highly controversial and misleading advertisement issued by the Department of Minorities.
In an emergency lett er written on Wednesday morning, Ravi Kumar has said that in the advertisement it has been mentioned that the Department of Minorities will provide a 60-days Army Training only to Minority youths.
“The Army does not offer Religion-based training. There is no such provision in the Constitution to provide Religion-based Army training,” Ravi Kumar explained.
Ravi Kumar further asserted that It is only the Army that offers Army training to those who are selected through rigorous selection process and the state government has no role to play either in the Army training or in the selection process.
“The advertisement is highly controversial and thoroughly misleading. This advertisement is aimed at misleading the gullible minority youths and take them for a ride;” Ravi Kumar added.
According to Ravi Kumar, the state government occasionally imparts training to youths – irrespective of religion, caste, community – in Civil Defence programmes to handle emergency situations such as Train Accidents, flood, earth-quake.
“But to say that the Department of Minorities will provide Army training only to Muslim youths is wrong. I repeat that the advertisement is controversial and misleading;” Ravi Kumar said.
Ravi Kumar urged Shivakumar to clarify and direct the Department of Minorities to withdraw the advertisement.
