Maharashtra Minister Chandrakant Patil on Monday apologised in the legislative Council for his remarks against the Opposition after the latter, on Friday, raised the issue of some State Class 6 Geography textbooks having six of their pages printed in Gujarati.
NCP MlC Sunil Tatkare had raised the issue in the Council on Friday and Patil had claimed that the error could have been the result of a “binding mistake” or there was a possibility that somebody inserted these pages in a few books on purpose.
Tatkare, terming the allegation against the Opposition a serious one, had said, “If you could prove that I printed this, I will drink poison here and commit suicide.”
Speaking in the Council today, Maharashtra School Education Minister Vinod Tawde said that around 11.50 lakh copies of the Class 6 Geography textbook in Marathi were printed of which about one lakh copies were published by Shlok Print City, a firm based in Ahmedabad in neighbouring Gujarat.
Tawde said there was a possibility the pages in Gujarati were erroneously printed and added that the Ahmedabad-based firm has been told to furnish an explanation.