<p> A group of persons today ransacked the office of Prof Suhas Palshikar, who resigned as NCERT adviser in the wake of the row over cartoon of B R Ambedkar in school text books.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Police said the persons involved in the incident had been invited by Palshikar for discussion in his office after they raised objections on the cartoon.<br /><br />They later damaged furniture in his office located in Pune University campus.<br />Palshikar, however, was unharmed, police added.<br /><br />A Republican Panther of India spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the cartoon amounted to an "insult" to the Dalit icon.Police have detained three persons in connection with the incident.<br /><br />Palshikar, a former Head of Pune University's Department of Politics, had resigned after the uproar in Parliament over the issue, on which HRD Minister Kapil Sibal had tendered an apology.<br /><br />While resigning from his NCERT post, Palshikar had described the ruckus in both Houses over the cartoon row as "unfortunate".<br /><br />He added that "space for debate in democracy is shrinking".<br /><br />Palshikar was a member of the HRD Ministry's Textbook Development Committee, which had approved the Class XI social science textbook that contained the cartoon.<br /><br />Political scientist Yogendra Yadav, who was the chief adviser of the committee, has also resigned.</p>
<p> A group of persons today ransacked the office of Prof Suhas Palshikar, who resigned as NCERT adviser in the wake of the row over cartoon of B R Ambedkar in school text books.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Police said the persons involved in the incident had been invited by Palshikar for discussion in his office after they raised objections on the cartoon.<br /><br />They later damaged furniture in his office located in Pune University campus.<br />Palshikar, however, was unharmed, police added.<br /><br />A Republican Panther of India spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the cartoon amounted to an "insult" to the Dalit icon.Police have detained three persons in connection with the incident.<br /><br />Palshikar, a former Head of Pune University's Department of Politics, had resigned after the uproar in Parliament over the issue, on which HRD Minister Kapil Sibal had tendered an apology.<br /><br />While resigning from his NCERT post, Palshikar had described the ruckus in both Houses over the cartoon row as "unfortunate".<br /><br />He added that "space for debate in democracy is shrinking".<br /><br />Palshikar was a member of the HRD Ministry's Textbook Development Committee, which had approved the Class XI social science textbook that contained the cartoon.<br /><br />Political scientist Yogendra Yadav, who was the chief adviser of the committee, has also resigned.</p>