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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA V. Muraleedharan has drawn flak aft a video of him sprinkling toffees connected students’ desks astatine a Pravesanotsavam (school reopening) relation successful Kerala went viral.
The incidental occurred astatine Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Model Residential Higher Secondary School, Kattela.
In the video, the MLA was seen dropping toffees from a screen connected to desks alternatively of handing them implicit to students.
The incidental drew swift reactions from a big of people, including erstwhile State Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty.
Sivankutty seeks apology
Terming the Kazhakuttam MLA’s actions “discriminatory and shameful”, Mr. Sivankutty demanded that the erstwhile tender an apology.
He questioned however Mr. Muraleedharan behave could successful specified a mode with students successful an instauration wherever children from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Communities studied. “It was an affront to students’ dignity and would permission a lasting interaction connected their psyche,” Mr. Sivankutty said.
Former Minister for Women and Child Development Veena George excessively reacted with the question ‘Ithaa Puthuyugam?’ (Is this the caller age?).
In a Facebook post, she said the incidental was deplorable. “It was transgression that those liable for extortion of rights did not find thing unnatural successful it and that they were keeping mum,” she said.
Mr. Muraleedharan could not beryllium reached for comments.
