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‘Save Democracy’: Filmmakers issue appeal against voting for the BJP

Under the umbrella of “Save Democracy”, more than 100 film makers, mostly independent, have issued an appeal not to vote for the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, reported the Hindu. 

They include well-known names like Vetri Maaran, Anand Patwardhan, Sanalkumar Sasidharan, Sudevan, Q, Deepa Dhanraj, Gurvinder Singh, Pushpendra Singh, Kabir Singh Chowdhry, Anjali Monteiro, Praveen Morchhale, Devashish Makhija and festival director and editor, Bina Paul.

The statement was put up early on Friday on the website www.artistuniteindia.com.

The reasons offered for their active stand against the BJP include the “unleashing of polarization and hate politics; marginalisation of Dalits, Muslims and farmers; steady erosion of the cultural and scientific institutions; and increasing censorship,” among others.

“Though culturally vivid and geographically diverse, we have always stayed united… It has indeed been a great feeling to be a citizen of this wonderful country,” says the statement.

It goes on to say that all that is at stake now and that fascism threatens to strike us hard if we don’t choose wisely in the coming Lok Sabha election. The filmmakers allege that ever since the BJP came to power in 2014, the country has been polarised along religious lines.

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