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Bharat Mata Row Sparks Street Protests in Kerala
The New Indian Express Coimbatore
|June 22, 2025
The Bharat Mata portrait row involving Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishawanath Arlekar triggered a series of street protests and a war of words on Saturday with the ruling CPI (M)'s official mouthpiece publishing a hard-hitting editorial against the Raj Bhavan.
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Thiruvananthapuram:
The southern state has been witnessing a tussle between Arlekar and the Marxist party-led LDF government over the display of 'Bharat Mata portrait' during official events at the Raj Bhavan here.
This story is from the June 22, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Coimbatore.
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