RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday unfurled the national flag to mark the Independence Day celebrations at a Government-aided higher secondary school in Palakkad district of left-ruled Kerala despite an instruction of restraint issued by the district administration.
District Collector P Marykutty had late on Monday night issued a circular to the management of the Karnakiayamman Higher Secondary School at Moothanthara in Palakkad asking it to restrain the Sangh chief from hoisting the flag saying that only elected people’s representatives or school authorities could do that as per protocol since the institution was Government-aided.