No official version of Bharat Mata portrait: LDF govt after fiasco

The Left government in Kerala on Friday made it clear that it was not in agreement with the use of the Bharat Mata portrait at the Environment Day event at the Raj Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram, as the picture was not authorised as the official version by the Constitution or the Indian government.

- Press Trust of India

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:

Kerala agriculture minister P Prasad, who boycotted the event at the Raj Bhavan a day ago over the use of the portrait, said that those in constitutional offices cannot convert government programmes into political events.

A similar view was also expressed by state general education minister V Sivankutty, who said that the Raj Bhavan and the governor were above politics and said that Arlekar should withdraw the stand taken by him.