India, July 21 -- In 2016, RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat stated that the time had come to teach our new generation to chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' at every occasion. To this, Asaduddin Owaisi said that even if a knife is put to his neck, he will not do so. Recently (June 2025), the issue was revived again in Kerala.

The Kerala Governor, Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, had organised a prize distribution program for the Scouts in collaboration with the education department of the Kerala Government. In this program, he put the image of Bharat Mata in the backdrop. The image was typical of the one projected by RSS. Bharat Mata looks like a Hindu Goddess holding a saffron flag.

The Education Minister of the Kerala Government was there, and he ...