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CPI MP Demands Kerala Governor’s Recall Over Contested Bharat Mata Portrait

Following the governor’s decision to retain an RSS-associated Bharat Mata image at Raj Bhavan, the state government moved its World Environment Day event to the Secretariat’s Durbar Hall.

Kerala minister P Prasad said the photograph is associated mainly with the BJP’s ideological fount, RSS. (Sourced)
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File photo of Kerala Governor Rajendra Arlekar and CM Pinarayi Vijayan. | ANI

Overview

  • Agriculture Minister P. Prasad walked out of the June 5 World Environment Day ceremony at Raj Bhavan after Governor Rajendra Arlekar refused to remove a Bharat Mata portrait linked to RSS iconography.
  • The Kerala government shifted its official environment day celebrations to the Secretariat’s Durbar Hall, arguing that no version of the Bharat Mata image is constitutionally authorized.
  • Governor Arlekar defended the portrait as a national symbol and insisted that Raj Bhavan events would not be altered at the ministerial request.
  • Senior CPI(M) and Congress leaders criticised the governor for using a constitutional office to promote RSS-affiliated imagery, warning against politicising Raj Bhavan.
  • On June 6, CPI MP P. Sandosh Kumar wrote to President Droupadi Murmu seeking Arlekar’s recall over what he called ‘unconstitutional conduct’ and misuse of gubernatorial authority.