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Speaking with the media in Rajkot Saturday, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan said attempts have been made to “harm Kerala’s communal harmony in the last 15-20 years”. He also praised the new Parliament building as one “built by us”.
Khan, who was at the Gau Tech fair in Rajkot, when asked to react to the push given to the film ‘The Kerala Story’, said, “It is not necessary to criticise or support (the film) but to understand. Kerala is such a state, be it the culture, food or clothes, nobody puts a tag of religion on them. You can only hear ‘this food is from south Kerala or north Kerala’ but you will never hear anything linking a community or religion to it.”
He added, “When there is such a society, and I was astonished, for example, there is a prayer meeting (where) our Christians pray in Sanskrit. They told me ‘it was because of you it is in Sanskrit, else we recite it in Malayalam’.”
He further said, “On special occasions like Eid you will be surprised, the atmosphere there is very good. But when there is something good there is an attempt to spoil it. In the last 15-20 years, attempts have been made to harm the communal harmony in Kerala in a very well planned manner. I am not commenting on the film but nobody can deny that such attempts have been made in Kerala and today’s government of India has banned a party based out of that state. So, there must be some reason why it was banned.”
On the new Parliament building Khan said that all buildings “have an age” and welcomed the fact that the old building would house a museum. “The old building was built by those who ruled over us, the new one is built by us. There is a difference in emotion in sitting in that (old) one and this (new) one and I have complete faith that this difference will make all the difference.”
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