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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan highlighted the transformative powerfulness of creation astatine the inauguration of State School Arts Festival connected Wednesday.
“Art is not lone astir creating joy; it indispensable besides animate courageousness to combat divisiveness and discrimination. In a clip erstwhile adjacent Christmas celebrations look attacks, young artists indispensable usage creation arsenic a limb to dispersed bid and happiness against those who propagate hatred. Art indispensable face harsh realities and alteration lives.”
Union Minister of State for Tourism Suresh Gopi, who was besides successful the stage, refrained from immoderate remarks, stating helium does not privation to usage the venue for governmental reactions.
Earlier, BJP workers greeted Mr. Gopi with lotus flowers astatine the venue of the Kerala State School Arts Festival, pursuing earlier protests implicit the exclusion of the lotus from venue names. The contented was aboriginal resolved, with Education Minister V. Sivankutty emphasising that the festival should proceed without controversy.
