Kerala Students, Mayor's Powerful Reply To Moral Policing At Bus Stand
NDTV
Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram Mayor Arya S Rajendran said there is no ban on girls and boys sitting together and those who still believe there should be such a prohibition are "still living in ancient times"
A bus stop bench was cut into three parts to allegedly prevent boys and girls from sitting together in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram. Soon, the city's Mayor Arya S Rajendran visited the area on Thursday after students of a nearby engineering college complained about "moral policing" on social media and posted visuals of the bus stop bench.
The Mayor posted on Facebook that the manner in which the bench was cut into three seats was not only "inappropriate", but also "unbecoming of a progressive society" like that of Kerala.
She said that there is no ban on girls and boys sitting together in Kerala and those who still believe there should be such a prohibition are "still living in ancient times".
"One can only sympathise with those who do not understand that times have changed," Ms Rajendran wrote on Facebook.
