KOZHIKODE: Vegetarian food is served at the state school arts fest as it is the food that everyone eats, said BJP sate chief K Surendran. If anyone wants non-vegetarian, then he/she can go out and eat, he said.

Surendran said that no one in Kerala is against eating non-veg. Talking to the media, he said controversy over food is unnecessary. Pazhayidom Mohanan Namboodiri had earlier said that he is ready to serve non-veg if the government demands it.

Education Minister V Sivankutty has informed to serve non-veg in the state school arts festival from next year onwards. He had stated that the government is not against serving non-vegetarian and said that he wanted to serve biryani to the children who reached Kozhikode.