Overview
- Education Minister V. Sivankutty directed the Director of General Education to file a report on whether students were improperly involved or the event was politicised.
- Southern Railway first removed its social post showing the rendition, then reuploaded the video with an English translation and described it as the students’ school song.
- Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan called the inclusion of a song associated with the RSS at an official programme a violation of constitutional principles, while Congress leaders demanded an investigation.
- Union minister Suresh Gopi said the children’s singing was an innocent celebration and BJP leaders criticised the chief minister’s stance, reflecting sharp political divisions over the episode.
- The school principal said a TV crew requested a Malayalam song and that Railways had no role, and the school wrote to the prime minister asserting the piece was a patriotic number that does not challenge secular values.