DMK lawyer files PIL seeking inquiry into CM’s birthday celebrations in schools and colleges
A DMK advocate has filed a public interest litigation petition in the Madras High Court seeking a detailed inquiry into alleged use of school and
A DMK advocate has filed a public interest litigation petition in the Madras High Court seeking a detailed inquiry into alleged use of school and college premises, by the TVK cadre, for the celebrations related to Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay’s birthday on June 22, 2026. The petitioner V. Kavi Ganesan, also serving as Greater Chennai Corporation councillor, has sought a direction to the secretaries of School Education and Higher Education departments to conduct the inquiry on the basis of a representation made by him on June 26, 2026. In his affidavit, the petitioner said that he was a public spirited person who had filed the case for the protection of the welfare of school and college students and for safeguarding the sanctity and neutrality of educational institutions spread across the State.
“When students are forced to sit under the hot sun and made to participate in sloganeering, hold photographs of political leaders, carry party flags, sing songs in praise of political personalities, attend cake-cutting ceremonies connected to political events or receive certificates carrying party symbols, the same directly affects the neutrality and educational atmosphere of the institution,” the litigant said. He claimed that several videos were in circulation in the social media of TVK cadres, wearing the party scarves, entering into educational institutions for celebrating the birthday of their party president. “In some of the videos, slogans praising the TVK leader were raised inside or in connection with the ducational institutions.
Children were seen repeating or participating in such sloganeering,” he alleged. The petitioner said, a private school at Pudupakkam in Tiruvallur district had gathered 3,000 students to form a massive human portrait of the Chief Minister and elsewhere a principal of a college had joined the students in the birthday celebrations inside the college premises. In yet another incident, school students were seen wearing the party scarves and carrying portraits of the Chief
Minister, he complained. “In Madurai, TVK members were seen entering a school premises and using children to campaign, celebrate and sing praises in connection with the birthday of the TVK leader,” the petitioner said and claimed to have made a detailed representation in this regard to Chief Secretary as well as the School Education and Higher Education secretaries on Friday (June 26, 2026) before filing the present case on Monday (June 29, 2026).
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