NEW DELHI: Minister V Sivankutty said he will meet Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday evening and submit a written complaint regarding the incident where students were made to sing the RSS Gana Geetham at the flag-off ceremony of the Ernakulam–Bengaluru Vande Bharat train.

He said that singing an RSS song at an official event of the Government of India is a violation of protocol. No school will be allowed to take actions that challenge secularism. When schools are given an NOC, certain conditions are attached. If those conditions are violated, the NOC can be cancelled according to the rules. There will be no action against the children, the minister added.

“The principal said the Gana Geetham is a patriotic song. I don’t know where he got that information from. Politic

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