A group of youngsters have joined their hands in protest against
the increasing activities of moral policing in Kerala, India. The protest is going under the name ‘Kiss Day’.
Kiss Day will be conducted on November 2nd 2015 at Marine drive,
Kochi. Youngsters are fighting for their rights to love for the first time in
Kerala by coming up with such a protest. The Kiss day’s main objective to
protest against the attack at a Coffee shop in Kozhikode district, Kerala by
BJP activists.
Among the organizers
was S Rahul who said that this will be a strong message against moral policing
in Kerala. Lovers will kiss each other on this Kiss day. The attack on Coffee
shop is just one of the incidents by moral policing. This tendency of criminalizing
love is growing every where in Kerala. Youngsters are fighting for their rights
to love. Rahul and other organizers have completed mass campaign for this
maiden effort in Social media.
There is also a facebook page known as Kiss Of Love. The
page has more than ten thousand likes in a short time. The organizers have
invited couples to participate in the event and kiss each other on the day. The
organizers have also requested for live media coverage as this will be a strong
message to the moral policing.
Even though police said that they cannot prevent people from
gathering in the city, they said they will arrest those who are responsible for
causing law and order problems on the day.
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