Overview
- ADG (Training) Raja Babu Singh directed all eight police training schools to have recruits read at least one chapter of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita each evening before meditation throughout the month of Margashirsha.
- The instruction applies to roughly 4,000 constable trainees in a nine‑month course that began in July, and centres have begun implementing the daily readings, according to reports.
- State Congress leaders condemned the move as an attempt to saffronise or radicalise the force, while the BJP defended it as cultural and philosophical guidance.
- Muslim organisations urged parity by seeking inclusion of Quranic teachings, arguing that state-run training should reflect religious equality.
- Singh framed the readings as promoting discipline and balancing IQ and EQ, pointed to earlier Ramcharitmanas recitals, and announced Heartfulness Meditation sessions for December 19–21 at heritage sites led by trained police instructors.