District Magistrate SC Sharma issues order to schools to not perform 'Ghoomar' for Republic Day celebrations

While Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Padmaavat' has finally been given a go-head and will release soon, the movie and controversies that surround it just won't cease being the topic of conversation yet. And amidst the raging controversy surrounding 'Padmaavat', it has now been brought to our notice that an administrative official in Udaipur has issued a circular to district education officers to not perform on the 'Ghoomar' song of the period drama at cultural programmes on Republic Day.

Additional District Magistrate, Subhash Chand Sharma has directed district education officers to inform the government and private schools within their jurisdiction about the memorandum to prevent any sort of backlash. A copy of the notification was marked to registrars and deans of all colleges and district police was asked to remain alert for maintaining law and order situation. “It is just an alert notification sent to district education officers so that any untoward incident does not occur,” Udaipur district collector Bishnu Charan Mallick said.

Through a memorandum, the Rajput Karni Sena (Mewar) had requested that the 'Ghoomar' song not be played on Republic Day in schools, colleges and other institutions and post this, the district administration issued a circular to the DEOs to act appropriately and direct all government or private school principals in the district in this regard.

The film has been facing protests by Karni Sena and other fringe groups over allegations that it distorts historical facts right since the very beginning and as much as we want to believe that all is well now, looks like trouble for the film continues to persist.