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The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) has powerfully opposed the Kerala Police’s determination to region the governmental parody of an Ayyappa devotional opus from societal media accounts, chiefly those operated by Meta.
The song, which went viral during the section assemblage predetermination campaign, lampoons the government’s alleged engagement successful the Sabarimala golden theft case.
Mr. Satheesan said the Kerala Government’s petition to META to instrumentality down the song, which seeks to item the criminality, nepotism, and governmental engagement successful the crime, has an authoritarian bent.
Mr. Satheesan said that to date, nary tribunal of instrumentality has proscribed the parody opus oregon ordered its removal from societal media platforms. Moreover, the satirical contented woven into the opus did not interruption Meta’s Community Standards.
Mr. Satheesan said the government’s infringement connected creator state and governmental dissidence intelligibly violated law extortion for the close to state of code and expression.
He said the Supreme Court of India 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.
The quality erupted connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) aft the Pathanamthitta-based Thiruvabharana Patha Samrakshana Samathi, an organisation intimately associated with the contented of the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple, sought a transgression probe into what it described arsenic a wilful and conspiratorial trespass connected faith.
The substance took a crisp governmental crook erstwhile the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] endorsed Samathi’s complaint.
CPI(M)’s Pathanamthitta territory secretary, Raju Abraham, accused the Congress and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) of utilizing the opus to polarise communities connected spiritual lines astatine the polling booth. The CPI(M) besides vowed to record a ailment with the Election Commission of India (ECI) against the UDF, accusing the Opposition of denigrating spiritual symbols for governmental ends connected the run trail.
Subsequently, the Thiruvananthapuram Cyber Police indicted the creators and broadcasters of the opus connected charges of creating enmity among antithetic groups of radical and outraging spiritual symbols. They had yet to sanction immoderate idiosyncratic arsenic an accused. The constabulary besides approached META to region the opus from its websites and societal media platforms.
