By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chalachitra Academy chairman Kamal on Wednesday admitted lack of vigilance in his letter to Cultural Affairs Minister A Okay Balan searching for regularisation of service of 4 momentary workers at his workplace. The letter which stated that the regularisation will assist “maintain the Left nature of the academy” had come underneath extreme criticism from Opposition events.
“I wanted to convey the need to resist Sangh Parivar from gaining control of cultural institutions as has happened at the national level. But the wordings were taken out of context and blown up as a political controversy. I’m not blaming anyone because the assembly elections are near. I wasn’t vigilant enough,” he advised TNIE. He claimed that the letter was private and the advice was rejected by the minister outrightly. Kamal stated his wordings weren’t towards the Congress social gathering. “At the nationwide stage Congress is seen as a left-ofcentre social gathering.
Hence they need to in actual fact stand with the transfer to oppose the Sangh Parivar,” he stated. The chairman stated he handed over the private letter to the minister instantly. “He then said the proposal cannot be considered. That was a closed chapter,” he stated. “That wasn’t an official communication. If it was so, it would have been sent by the academy secretary to the Cultural Affairs Secretary and then to the minister,” he stated.
The minister’s workplace on Wednesday clarified that the chairman’s proposal was rejected by the academy secretary later. On whether or not the Sangh Parivar was making an attempt to realize management over cultural establishments in Kerala, Kamal stated: “Not so far except for some indications. Certain campaigns on social media point to that move. I’m not naming them,” he stated.
