The Idukki diocese of Syro-Malabar Catholic Church has directed all Sunday class students from classes 10 to 12 to watch the much talked about film ‘The Kerala Story’.
Earlier, on Friday the Doordarshan had also aired the Bollywood movie despite strong protests raised by the ruling CPM and Congress in Kerala.
In a conversation with News18, the media director of Idukki diocese said that the topic of the classes this year was love marriage and cheating in the name of love. He further said that since this movie was related to the subject they have directed the students to watch it.
The youth wing of the CPM, Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) had screened a video, ‘The Kerala Story True or Fake?’ by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee, at various places across the state to debunk the movie. The youth Congress had also expressed their strong dissent and staged a protest march to the Doordarshan office against the broadcast of the movie.
The CPI(M) and the Congress in Kerala had also lodged separate complaints with the Election Commission of India against Doordarshan’s decision to air the controversial movie, alleging it could potentially polarise society along religious lines and urged the poll panel to intervene and stop its screening.
However, the BJP claimed that the theme of the movie was real and wondered why the Left and the Congress were opposing it. The Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, V D Satheesan, sent a letter to the Election Commission, seeking to direct Doordarshan to withdraw from its decision to telecast “the extremely malicious ‘The Kerala Story’ movie”.
Congress leader V D Satheesan spoke on Idukki diocese’s decision and said, “It is a wrong approach. The Kerala story has been created to insult Kerala . Is there such incidents in Kerala? We are not agreeing with Kerala story which has created in an imaginary story which is not existing in Kerala.” He further said, “We are not agreeing with it ,we are the people who have written not to screen it even in Doordarshan.”
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