Twitter debate

Television debates are passe

Television debates are passé. Karnataka politicians are debating public policy on Twitter. After the Congress hijacked the Kannada card to score over Bharatiya Janata Party as the election fever hots up in the state, BJP leader C T Ravi used his handle to question the government on its plan to teach Arabic in Karnataka schools while alleging that the central government was foisting Hindi on the state. Education Minister Tanveer Sait was quick to retort on the microblogging platform: such a decision was taken in 2009 under a BJP government, and a letter to that effect was sent to the Department of State Educational Research and Training in Bengaluru, he said. Sait followed up saying no aid was to given to any madrassas from the government. Over to Ravi.