BJP State chief Ok Surendran accused the academy of attempting to humiliate the nation. (File photograph)
Kochi:
The BJP on Saturday condemned the choice of the Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi to pick out for honourable point out a cartoon that it stated was humiliating the nation.
Criticising the Akademi, BJP State chief Ok Surendran stated if these holding accountable positions try to insult and humiliate their very own nation, those that love the nation wouldn’t must assume twice to oppose it.
Akademi had some days in the past chosen a cartoon by Anoop Radhakrishnan for honourable point out. The cartoon reveals representatives of varied nations attending a COVID-19 medical summit wherein the Indian consultant is depicted as a cow with an orange scarf draping it.
“These in energy ought to take steps to test such injustice or else individuals should intervene to finish it,” Mr Surendran posted on the social media.
What Lalithakala Academy has proven is nothing however absurdity. If those that are in energy try to insult and humiliate the motherland, patriots will not assume twice to oppose it. It is as much as the state govt to regulate the academy. If in any other case, the individuals shall be pressured to take action. pic.twitter.com/pgBb94dK2R
– Ok Surendran (@surendranbjp) November 13, 2021
The chairman of the Akademi Nemom Pushparaj informed PTI that it was an eminent jury consisting of well-known cartoonists that chosen the cartoon for the award.
“It was an eminent jury which has chosen the cartoon and we’ve got no position in it. Earlier, the Akademi had given an award for a cartoon which had criticised our Chief Minister,” Pushparaj stated.
Dinraj of Valapad has received the State cartoon award 2019-20 instituted by the Akademi for his cartoon titled ‘Raja and Maharaja’.
Radhakrishnan of Ponnurunni and Ratheesh Ravi of Perumanoor had been chosen for honourable point out. The awards carry Rs 25,000 and a quotation every. In all, 59 entries had been acquired for the award and 32 had been shortlisted. In 2019, a row broke out in Kerala over the Akademi honouring a cartoon depicting bishop Franco Mulakkal as a rooster and alluding to the cost of rape towards him with the Church condemning it as vulgar and saying it amounted to humiliating Christian symbols.
