Calling it a "bizarre censoring of Indian history," Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the alleged removal of lessons on RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar from school textbooks in Karnataka would be a "crime against youth". Congress MLC BK Hari Prasad has claimed that the new Karnataka government will not approve the inclusion of chapters on Hedgewar, whom he also slammed as a "coward" and "fake freedom fighter". The BJP has also hit out at the state government, demanding an apology, saying the Congress is distorting history.