Goa Congress criticised Shiv Sena president Shivprasad Joshi Shivprasad Joshi stated many citizens in Karnataka do not even know how to sing the national anthem. The Congress leader said the remarks regarding people of Karnataka are "entirely unfortunate and condemnable".
The Goa Congress today criticised state Shiv Sena president Shivprasad Joshi for praising the right-wing Sri Ram Sene saying that many people in neighbouring Karnataka cannot sing the complete national anthem. Joshi yesterday said though Goans are patriots, many citizens in Karnataka do not even know how to sing the national anthem.
The Sena leader had also hailed the Sene and its controversial chief Pramod Muthalik for doing a commendable job of protecting women. "Shiv Sena's praising of Shri Ram Sene displays their mindset though it's not at all surprising. Moreover, the moral policing hypocrites should introspect first," Goa Congress spokesman Sunil Kawthankar told PTI.
Reacting to Joshi's statement on the singing of the national anthem, the Congress leader said the remarks regarding people of Karnataka are "entirely unfortunate and condemnable".
Referring to an incomplete printing of national anthem in the Marathi subject textbooks of class II in Goa, Kawthankar asked, "where was Shiv Sena when the incomplete national anthem was printed in thousands of 'Gomant Bharti' books? Is their nationalism selective?"
In the wake of the Congress allegation that the books carried incomplete national anthem, the state government recently ordered reprinting/replacement of several thousand books.
