MP: Controversy breaks out over ‘Halloween party’ at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College (Representative image)
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Doctors’ associations have objected to an unauthorized Halloween party being held in a nearly 150-year-old building on the Government campus. mahatma gandhi Memorial Medical College here. Two associations of teachers and alumni of the medical college lodged a complaint at Sanyogitaganj police station in the city, demanding registration of a first information report against the organisers, a police official said on Thursday.
The Jain Social Group, a local group, hosted a Halloween party on Oct. 13 at the King Edward Medical School building that dates back to 1878, according to the complaint. Obscene images and objectionable slogans were written on the walls of the historic building, he claimed. Halloween is celebrated in many countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian holiday of All Saints’ Day. Celebration in popular culture often focuses on the theme of horror and the supernatural.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Tushar Singh told PTI that the police will ask the university management with what permission the Halloween party was organised. “We will take appropriate legal action after investigation,” he added. The university’s dean, Dr. Sanjay Dixit, said he has sent a notice to the organization, seeking an explanation about the alleged event. He said he had not given any permission to such a party.
Images from the Halloween party circulating on social media allegedly showed local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Akshay Kanti Bam dressed as a ghost. State Congress spokesperson Neelabh Shukla alleged that this showed that the organizers were enjoying the patronage of the BJP and that FIRs were not being registered under pressure from the ruling party. Bam, however, claimed that he had nothing to do with the party organization. Earlier this year, Bam withdrew his candidacy as a congressional candidate for the Indore Lok Sabha sat at the last moment and joined the BJP soon after. His action left Congress out of the electoral race.
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