Gadchiroli (Maharashtra):
The country's MPs and MLAs will vote only today to elect the next President, but UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee has already been declared the 14th President of India in a university textbook in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli.
The state-promoted Gondwana University's textbook, Indian Democracy, which is part of the BA course for students of political science, has the gaffe on page 84; a graphic on Presidents of India has Mr Mukherjee listed as the 14th.
An alert BJP man, former MLA Ashok Nete found the slip-up and has asked the state to hold an enquiry.
"Pranab dada has still not been elected as the President of India, but the text book shows him as the 14th President of the country. Dr Sanjay Gore, the author of the book, has made a blunder and action should be taken against him," Mr Nete reasoned. He wants the book banned for being "against democracy."
Gondwana University has quickly washed its hands of the matter saying it had not sanctioned its publication. "We had not given any permission to the author to write this book or to publish it," the Vice Chancellor Vijay Ainchwar said yesterday.
The university said the author, Sanjay Gore, had been summoned to the university office, was given a strict warning and had been issued a show cause notice asking how he published the book without permission.