Members of Forward Bloc petitioned Assistant Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar, seeking restoration of a lesson on Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar in Class 6 textbook of the State board syllabus. ‘
The protesters blackened their faces with charcoal as a show of protest here on Monday. Its functionary V. S. Navamani said Muthuramalinga Thevar's brief history as an Indian freedom fighter was included in the Tamil Textbook of Class 6. The removal was tantamount to wiping out the leaders’ name from history.
