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Bengaluru: A faculty member of Mount Carmel English High School in Bengaluru was sacked after its question paper for class 8 students asked if a farmer’s friend was an earthworm or Chief Minister H.D. The question in the examination, however, did not intend to promote any political party or ideology, the school administration asserted. “The faculty member responsible for setting the question paper was dismissed from the post,” Raghavendra, the principal of the school in the city’s southwestern suburbs, told the media here. The question, which was asked in the annual examination paper for Kannada language for 8th standard students, soon went viral on social media platforms for its political tone. Kumaraswamy’s party, Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), also depicts a female farmer on its green flag (symbolic of fields and the farming community)..