The India Today
KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
A case has been registered at Edakkara police station in Malappuram district, in Southern Indian state of Kerala after globes sold to students in the region did not show Kashmir as part of India.
The complaint was filed by Yuva Morcha, the youth wing of the right wing BJP. The globes are said to be made in China. However, the complainants said there was no information of the manufacturer on the globes.
“These may have been distributed in other states as well. We noticed it here, so we alerted the authorities,” said Gopinath Nair, Panchayat President.
Reportedly, students in the Panchayat who bought the globes from a local market for their studies noticed that Kashmir was not part of India on the globe and they informed their parents about this.
“Parents checked with the shopkeepers and then informed the police. These are available in many places in Malappuram. When we went and checked, all of them were the same. One part of Kashmir is part of Pakistan and another part of it is part of China. We complained to the nearest police station,” said Aji Thomas, State Secretary, Yuva Morcha.
“We cannot say this is an accident considering the kind of place Malappuram is. It has been a centre for many foreign activities. There must be hands of anti-national forces behind this, beyond doubt,” he added.
(The news story was first published by The India Today.)
