A video shared by the Southern Railway of school students singing the RSS ‘Gana Geetham’ during the inaugural run of the Ernakulam-Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express on Saturday has sparked a political row in Kerala.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the Sangh Parivar was using the Railways for its communal campaign, while the Congress-led Opposition leader V D Satheesan objected to students being made to participate in such an activity. He also said the BJP was implementing its divisive politics in Kerala.

Twenty students and two teachers from Saraswathi Vidyanikethan Public School, Kochi, were among those who joined the inaugural run of the train, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off virtually. Their signing of the Gana Geetham was shared by the Southern Railway on its s

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