Students at RSS run school in Karnataka re-enact Babri Masjid demolition at Annual Day Function

Bengaluru: A RSS run school in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district is into controversy after a video emerged of its students re-enacting the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

The video shows the students dressed in white and saffron of Sri Rama Vidyakendra High School at Kalladka village tearing down a poster of the Babri Masjid amid chants of “Bolo Sri Ramachandra ki Jai” as part of a play on its annual day, in which they later erect a Ram Mandir in its place.

The school’s annual day Sunday was attended by Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Puducherry Governor Kiran Bedi and Karnataka ministers H. Nagesh and Shashikala Jolle.

Notably, Bedi had even tweeted on the school’s annual day function extolling the student’s enactment of the “proposed Ram mandir” but made no mention of the “demolition” part.

Meanwhile, the opposition Congress in Karnataka is now demanding action against the school authorities.

On the other hand, Y.B. Srivatsa, national campaign in-charge of the Indian Youth Congress urged police to file an FIR against the school for “inciting communal and religious hatred” and said it was part of the RSS’ agenda to brainwash young minds and teach them to hate.

“It’s sad to see students being encouraged to take part in violence. What sort of education is being imparted?” he asked. “The police must take up suo-moto action against the school authorities. If we continue to normalize such things, we will be on the same path as the Nazis in Germany.”

Reacting to the entire matter, Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, the RSS’ south-central region executive committee member and managing trustee of the school, said that he finds nothing wrong in the play and how it was staged. He felt it was neither “communal” nor inciting violence.

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