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Row over Chandy Oommen's invitation to Maha guv
The New Indian Express Kottayam
|May 04, 2025
SON of former CM Oommen Chandy and Puthuppally MLA Chandy Oommen has kicked up a controversy by inviting Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan to inaugurate a free sports training programme to be held on May 4 in his constituency aimed at attracting youngsters to sports and keep them away from drugs.
C P Radhakrishnan was an RSS Swayamsevak and BJP national leader before being appointed as Maharashtra governor.
The programme comes at a time when the state Congress leadership is in a direct fight with the BJP in Palakkad after the latter locked horns with Rahul Mamkootathil over the naming of a school after RSS founder K B Hedgewar.
The programme is organised by Oommen Chandy Foundation and Don Bosco Community Sports Centre against the increasing use of drugs among youngsters.
This story is from the May 04, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kottayam.
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