What went wrong with Kerala's iconic Thrissur pooram festival | All you need to know

Take a look at this visual. Does it seem odd to you? Well, it did for thousands of people who are thronged to Kerala to watch fireworks in the iconic Thrissur Puram festival. But what really happened? Like every year, Thrissur Puram took place on April 19th and 20th, but the fireworks scheduled for 3:00 AM were postponed to 7:00 AM. That’s not all. Even core rituals related to the Thrissur Purim festival didn’t take place due to police restrictions. In protest against police restrictions, the Thiruvambadi and Iconal pandals switched off the lights. Even Devaswam volunteers were denied entering the temple. While hundreds of volunteers work day and night to organise the Puram, they were denied permission to enter the Tegi N Vedan and Swaraj round. How can we justify such restrictions? Police officials stated that they were not trying to create any hindrance during the festival but trying to control the crowd. Police personnel have imposed safety measures to avoid unrest that occurred in 2023. In 2023, police resorted to lottery charge when the crowd got out of control during the Thrissur Puram festival. The disruptions in the festival turned uglier after opposition parties blamed LDF for disturbing the age-old festival is the historical and cultural festival of Kerala. This is years of tradition, centuries tradition. But the state government and police have tried to support it to disturb, disrespect the festival of Puram and revision government continuously interfering such big festivals. They are the communist government and the police will drive region and his police is purposefully trying to disturb the Trichur Puram. We strongly condemn. Why the state government and the Police Department continuously disturbing the festivals and rituals? It’s not the first time that the festival has been mired in controversies. In 2019, the district administration banned Tasker Ramachandran from participating in the Thrissur Puram festival. According to the administration authorities, the tusker was partially blind and suffered from temperamental issues. For more informative videos like this, keep watching India Today Newsmo.