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The Congress connected Friday (December 19, 2025) challenged the authorities to apprehension the creators and broadcasters of the arguable governmental parody of a fashionable Ayyappa devotional song, which lampooned the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) for the alleged culpability of its Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) governmental appointees successful the Sabarimala golden theft case.
The catchy opus had gone viral connected societal and accepted media, arguably catalysing the United Democratic Front’s (UDF) beardown showing successful the section assemblage elections.
The Congress formed the constabulary lawsuit registered against the creators of the opus arsenic an infringement connected creator state and governmental dissent, and arsenic a wide usurpation of the law protections for state of code and expression.
Booked lyricist
The constabulary had booked the lyricist, composer, and singers connected sedate charges of outraging spiritual religion and fostering enmity betwixt antithetic sets of people. The song’s creators had claimed they had staged the parody opus to beforehand their fledgling workplace connected societal media.
They claimed their intent was simply to propulsion the limb and not to insult immoderate religion. The workplace manager said the constitution created ingenious parody songs for opposing governmental campaigns, on with devotional songs crossed the spiritual spectrum.
All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput Pawan Khera pushed backmost alternatively dramatically by rendering the archetypal 2 lines of the ditty astatine the party’s State office astatine Indira Bhavan successful Thiruvananthapuram. He dared the constabulary to apprehension him. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Sunny Joseph, MLA, urged Congress workers to signifier choirs to intone the opus astatine municipality and colony centres crossed Kerala.
AICC wide caput K.C. Venugopal said the government’s quixotic bid to proscribe the opus and erase the ditty from nationalist representation indicated the LDF’s panic and deficiency of grace successful defeat.
Meanwhile, Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan powerfully opposed the government’s determination to region the parody opus from societal media accounts, chiefly those operated by Meta. In a missive to the Meta, Mr. Satheesan underscored that to date, nary tribunal has prohibited the parody opus oregon ordered its removal from societal media platforms. Moreover, the satirical contented woven into the opus did not interruption the Meta’s assemblage standards.
Mr. Satheesan told the Meta that the Supreme Court has consistently held that the State has nary close to curtail state of code and look unless determination is simply a wide and legally established usurpation of the law.
CPI(M)’s stance
Meanwhile, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] sought to region itself from the accusation that the authorities had stifled creator state and governmental dissidence.
The CPI(M) noted that the constabulary had taken cognisance of a ailment filed by the Pathanamthitta-based Thiruvabharana Patha Samrakshana Samathi, an organisation intimately associated with the contented of the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple.
The party’s Pathanamthitta territory caput Raju Abraham said neither the CPI(M) nor the authorities was a enactment successful the case.
