NEW DELHI: The CPI(M) Delhi State Committee has written a letter to the Delhi education minister raising concern that principals of certain private schools in Delhi were being forced by their management to book tickets for mass shows for children for the controversial movie ‘The Kerala Story’. It alleged that the fringe groups were even planning to post inflammatory speeches against the Muslim community. It appealed to the minister to stop this practice.
“Private schools in Delhi are mobilizing students to watch ‘The Kerala Story’ in cinema halls specially booked by them for this purpose. After the screening of the movie, a few ‘activists’ make inflammatory speeches against the Muslim community in front of the audience. Innocent students are being exposed to an agenda of hate and propaganda that dehumanises a certain community,” it said.
“This forced herding of students for the purpose of watching a controversial movie is not only ethically wrong but also against the spirit of our Constitution and traditions of communal harmony,” read the letter.
“We have come across a case from Sai Memorial School, Geeta Colony, where the school administration is organizing the screening of the movie, and booked an entire cinema hall for the purpose. We are also told that principals of private schools are being directed by the management of the schools to arrange the screening of this film for their students,” the letter further said.The CPI(M) requested the education minister to intervene in the matter and take appropriate steps to stop this attempt to “poison the minds of innocent school children”.