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The CPI (M) on Tuesday demanded that Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran Bedi be removed from her post for attending the ‘Kreedotsav’, the sports festival at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) backed Sri Rama Vidya kendra High School that made students reenact the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
CPI (M) politburo member Brinda Karat told reporters, “After the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict in which the apex court said the Babri demolition was a grossly illegal act, for Kiran Bedi to attend such a function in a school run by the RSS is outrageous and atrocious.”
“She has no right to remain in post of governor and should be dismissed forthwith”, Karat added.
Kiran Bedi had attended the event along with Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers D V Sadananda Gowda. Gowda has claimed that he was not present at the event when the play was being performed. Bedi had tweeted about the event with a video showing the kids come together in the formation of a Ram temple.
Yesterday, the police had booked four people including Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, the Chairman of the school, the President, Convenor and a member of the school under Sections 295A and 298 of the Indian Penal Code for engaging in deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings and wound the religious feelings of any person.
The demolition of the Babri Masjid, that was held to be a criminal act by the Supreme Court, was reenacted by the students of the school. They were shown to be building a huge Ram temple after the demolition.
Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat is an RSS strongman and south-central region’s executive committee member. He has been booked for being a repeat hate speech offender and has gone on record to say that he doesn’t agree with the decision of the court (that the demolition was a criminal act) and that there was nothing wrong in showcasing what was a ‘historical event’.
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