Just in: Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee says no political cartoons will be allowed in textbooks herewith and action will be taken against all involved.

All objectionable material will be removed in textbooks, says Pranab.

That's the announcement, just made, by the fin min in Parliament. Pranab says those books with cartoons will not be prescribed as textbook and all school textbooks will be scanned before it is released for publication.

This comes in the wake of the Babasaheb Ambedkar cartoon controversy. On Friday, the Ministry for Human Resource Development ordered the removal of the cartoon from the NCERT textbooks in which they were printed. The decision by the ministry came even as proceedings in Parliament were disrupted over the cartoon in Standard XI textbooks drawn in the 1940s by cartoonist Shankar.