The Kerala Story: Doordarshan’s decision to broadcast controversial movie triggers political row in Kerala
The Hindu
A political row has broken out in Kerala over Doordarshan’s contentious decision to beam the allegedly Islamophobic movie The Kerala Story.
A political row has broken out in Kerala over Doordarshan’s contentious decision to beam the allegedly Islamophobic movie The Kerala Story.
At least a score of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) activists attempted to storm the precincts of the Doordarshan Kendram in Thiruvananthapuram on April 5 morning demanding that the national broadcaster rescind its decision and apologise.
The Youth Congress has also planned similar protests in front of Central government offices later in the day.
The squabble has found the ruling front and the Opposition in Kerala on the same page for once.
Both the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) have accused the BJP-led Central government of sanctioning the movie’s broadcast to allegedly stoke sectarian divisions and cause communal polarisation in Kerala with an eye on Hindu votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan have separately demanded that Doordarshan cease beaming the “polarising movie.”
On April 4, Mr. Vijayan posted on X (formerly Twitter): “The decision by @DDNational to broadcast the film ‘Kerala Story’, which incites polarisation, is highly condemnable. The national news broadcaster should not become a propaganda machine of the BJP-RSS combine and withdraw from screening a film that only seeks to exacerbate communal tensions ahead of the general elections. Kerala will remain steadfast in opposing such malicious attempts to sow hatred.”
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