In a controversial move, the head teacher of Kunjikkan Haji Memorial Higher Secondary School (KHMHSS), Tirur Alathiyoor, Malappuram district, has initiated a disciplinary action against students who sang a patriotic song during Independence Day celebrations. The action followed a protest on September 3 by activists of SDPI, CPM, DYFI, and SFI groups that accused the children of rendering an “RSS song”. SDPI is the political wing of the now-banned Popular Front of India.
According to reports, children were divided into groups for Independence Day celebrations and were free to select songs. One group chose a stirring patriotic song from YouTube. However, this song triggered outrage from anti-Hindutva elements for the sole reason that it is often sung by RSS swayamsevaks during shakhas and programmes.
The song in question, in Malayalam, reads as follows:
Paramapavithamithaaam ee mannil
Bharathaambaye poojikkaan
Punyavaahinee sechanamekum
Poonkavanangalundivide
It can be translated as:
We have many flowering gardens here, nourished by our holy rivers.
Those flowers are meant for worshipping Bharatmata in this holiest soil.
The entire lyric is about the uniqueness of our country. There is no reference to any God or any organisation.
This is the latest instance of objecting to anything and everything that carries, directly or indirectly, some link with the RSS. It reflects the intolerance that the CPM and its front organisations nurture towards nationalist forces. SDPI’s objection may not come as a surprise, but what is striking is that a ruling party—always the loudest in proclaiming its virtues from the rooftops—has demeaned itself by siding, in broad daylight, with anti-national forces.
Ironically, the song itself made no mention of any religion, caste, or organisation. It simply evoked Bharat Mata and her diversities. No objections were raised on Independence Day itself. The controversy erupted only after a video of the performance surfaced later, prompting SDPI to protest, soon joined by CPM and its front organisations. Together, they pressured the head teacher into issuing a written undertaking on the school’s letterhead that action would be taken against the students “for singing RSS songs in school”.
This episode highlights a broader pattern. Radical Islamist and communist forces have long sought to control young minds, feeding them predefined political thoughts and shaping their worldview for decades. By the time individuals reach maturity and begin to question what they were taught, the damage is done. Instead of engaging freely with truth, many either become mute spectators or remain trapped in confusion. Meanwhile, these forces exploit the ideological framework they themselves imposed, deploying money, muscle, and political power to suppress any deviation or challenge. Kerala, in particular, has often been reduced to a testing ground for these tactics.
Here too, children were punished not for wrongdoing but for daring to express patriotism outside the narrow ideological prism supplied to them. These groups insist on dictating how the nation should be viewed, and anyone who dares to see India with their own eyes and senses is penalised. Ironically, such punishment may ultimately deepen the children’s realisation of the country’s true nature.
According to reports, State Education Minister V. Sivankutty has instructed the Deputy Director of Education to look into the controversy.
The school management said to have clarified that the students had come across the song on social media and chose to perform it, without realising it was linked to the RSS. Teachers, too, were said to be unaware of any such association.
BJP state vice-president V. Unnikrishnan Master condemned the incident, stating that the controversy clearly revealed the communal and political agenda of certain organisations. He pointed out that patriotic songs carry neither caste nor religion, only patriotism. “Several great poets composed patriotic songs during the freedom struggle. Can anyone object to ‘Sare Jahan Se Acha’, written by Allama Iqbal, if sung in a programme? Nationalist organisations render many such songs written by Kerala’s poets. To brand them communal is absurd,” he said.
He further reminded that a recent call by a teacher in another Kerala school to boycott Onam celebrations was also part of this disturbing pattern. “Those opposing the Independence Day song should first explain which line in it is communal,” he demanded. He strongly condemned the move to target teachers and students in this manner.
The Alathiyoor incident exposes once again the growing partnership between Islamic fundamentalist forces and the CPM. Their ideological construct equates pro-nation with pro-Hindu, and therefore “communal”. This reveals a classic modus operandi: controlling the thoughts of children, indoctrinating them with predefined narratives, and punishing any attempt to embrace alternative or positive ideas about the nation. The forces that pressured the school management are not merely intolerant; they are engaged in a deliberate, long-term effort to reshape Kerala’s society through coercion and manipulation.
