Thiruvananthapuram: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat unfurled the Tricolour on the occasion of Republic Day at a school run by Sangh workers in Kerala’s Palakkad district.
Bhagwat’s return to the state to hoist the national flag is seen as a challenge to the state’s Pinarayi Vijayan government after the controversy over last year’s Independence Day event at a government-aided school.
On Independence Day last year, Bhagwat had kicked up a row by hoisting the national flag at Karnakiamman higher secondary school, a government-aided institution, flouting an order by the Palakkad collector.
However, Sangh officials said, the Vyasa Vidhya Peetam Higher Secondary School in Palakkad, where the RSS chief hoisted the flag on Friday morning, is run by Vidhyabharti, an organisation of RSS workers.
"This is not a government or aided school. The school management will decide who has to hoist the flag," RSS's state coordinator K K Balram told PTI. "The government circular is not binding on us as it is a private school," he added.
Bhagwat is visiting Kerala to attend a three-day camp of RSS workers at the school and there is nothing wrong in his hoisting the tricolour, he said.
Organisational work and expansion of Sangh's activities in the coming years would be discussed with more than 5,000 office-bearers taking part in the camp, Balram said.
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