Around 150 artists from all over Rajasthan including Padma Awardees staged a protested against the Rajasthan government for unlawfully altering the constitution of Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK) the art and Culture centre of Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Artists hailing from all genres staged a protest by performing poetry, sketching, clay modelling, nukkad natak and and raised slogans outside the Jawahar Kala Kendra. Led by Rajasthan's Padma awardees Shakir Ali and Tilak Gitai and Padma Shree Arjun Prajapati, the artists aimed to highlight the neglect of Rajasthan's own art forms and artists by the management of JKK.

The primary concerns of the protesting artists was the unlawful alteration done to the original constitution of JKK, the state's foremost art center to accommodate unqualified members and neglect of state government and JKK's management towards its architecture by tampering it.

Shakir Ali, Padam Shri recepient in the field of miniature told DH, "JKK is one of the master pieces of architecture which was designed by famous architect Charles Correa. The design of this art institution is taught in the best Architecture colleges but the management of JKK has ruined it by making use of glass and plastic, materials discarded by its architect Correa."

At the protest site, Jaipur's theatre artist Himanshu Jhankal presented a small skit based on the altered constitution of JKK, whose governing council is headed by Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.

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