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Members of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha staged a protestation successful Thrissur connected Friday (January 9, 2025) against the exclusion of the sanction ‘Lotus’ (Thamara) from the venues of the State School Arts Festival. The olice detained and removed the protesters, including women activists, from the protestation site.
The objection took spot successful beforehand of the Town Hall, wherever a grooming programme and azygous organisation for greenish volunteers was nether way. Carrying lotus flowers, the protesters attempted to signifier a symbolic protest. The constabulary arrested and removed them conscionable earlier the accomplishment of General Education Minister V. Sivankutty astatine the venue.
The venues for the festival person been named aft flowers, but the lack of ‘Lotus’ triggered the protest.
‘Deliberately avoided’
Responding to the controversy, Mr. Sivankutty said helium had not anticipated specified a protestation implicit the issue. He pointed retired that adjacent during the erstwhile State School Arts Festival held successful Thrissur, the venues were named aft flowers and the lotus was not included past either.
“Since the lotus is the predetermination awesome of a nationalist governmental party, it was deliberately avoided to forestall unnecessary governmental disputes,” the Minister said.
