Thiruvananthapuram, 08 April(HS): In an unprecedented move, the Kerala Government controlled Travancore Devaswam Board disbanded the Advisory Committee of the Kottukkal Temple for allowing to render patriotic songs during the annual festival on Saturday.
While the TDB remained silent when a music show at Kadakkal Temple featured revolutionary songs in praise of Fidel Castro and Che Guvera, the former struck immediately on the advisory committee for giving permission to the musicians to sing patriotic songs at Kottukkal Temple.
The charges made by the Congress and the CPI(M) were that the musicians rendered a part of Gana Geeth of the Sangh. The temple authorities were taken to task for allowing saffron flags and festoons around the temple.
The devotees across the State are upset over the decision of the ruling CPI(M) and the opposition Congress that no Hindu devotional songs or patriotic songs should be allowed during temple festivals. The Congress leaders in the State reportedly chuckled when scantily dressed female artists gyrated and swung in an obscene manner during the Kadakkal Devi Temple festival last week.
While addressing a public meeting at Nilambur on Sunday, Vellappali Natesan, general secretary of Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yoga (SNDP Yogam) took strong objection to the latest developments. “Hindus are second class citizens in Kerala. We are all worried that there are apprehensions among the people in the State that whether Malappuram district is part of Indian union,” Natesan had said at Nilambur,
Malappuram district which has nearly 75 per cent Muslim population is known as mini Pakistan. The district had witnessed a holocaust in 1921 when thousands of Hindus were massacred by Islamic extremists and the pogrom was portrayed as Mopplah Rebellion against the British rulers. But the British Intelligence Department is in possession of records which prove that the slaughtering of Hindus was a massacre carried out with the motive of ethnic cleansing of the region.
R V Babu, president, Hindu Aikya Vedi, said that one cannot disagree with Natesan. “Only educational institutions owned by Islamists are allowed to function in Malappuram district. For namesake, there are some government-run schools . But they too function as per the whims and fancies of the Muslims,” said Babu.
Hindustan Samachar has been cautioning about the transformation of Kerala into another Kashmir . “The latest developments prove that Kerala is on its way to become an Islamic republic,” said Babu.
Hindusthan Samachar / Manohar Yadavatti
