A Kerala Government School Principal in Palakkad district of Kerala has issued a diktat threatening all students to be given Transfer Certificate(Which means they will be expelled) who wore religious symbols like Kumkum on the forehead or sacred threads on wrists. A wide protest has already been generated and the parents have called the circular a regressive and negative one.
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Parents said that such threats were issued from time to time, but now it surfaced in the form of an official circular. They objected to the circular in the Parents-Teachers Meeting held in school recently. Parents asked why a communal agenda is taken by the principal in a government school that doesn’t have any affiliation towards any religious trust.
Indian Constitution gives the right of expression of religion and such orders that contradicts with the freedom are not doing any good to ensure the secular fabric of our country. The principal did not answer any queries regarding this and not media persons were allowed in the school.
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