New Delhi: The Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee on Thursday called the controversial director Vivek Agnihotri’s film The Kashmir Files a ‘conspiracy’.
“The movie is mostly fiction and it is all planned”, Mamata Banerjee said on the floor of the assembly, as reported by the Economic Times.
There are several religious festivals/celebrations ahead be it Holi, Shab-e-Baraat or Eid-ul-Fitr, Mamata believes that there are conspiracies in making to create unrest in the state.
She said, “there are meetings happening to create troubles in Bengal, you can watch the movie, but cannot react to it”.
“The movies are based on fiction”, she added, however, the Bengal CM did not directly mention the name of the movie.
Earlier, the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti said that the aggressive manner in which the government of India is promoting the film and “weaponising” the pain of Kashmiri Pandits makes its “ill intention” obvious.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief said instead of healing old wounds and creating a conducive atmosphere between the two communities, the GoI is “deliberately tearing them apart”.
Pertinently, as the movie is being watched in theatres, the audience- mostly the people wearing Saffron Kurtas and shawls-was seen making genocide calls against Kashmiris and Muslims.
In various video clips, the audience was seen shouting slogans against the Muslims of Kashmir. In one such video taken inside the theatre, the audience after watching the movie can be heard saying ‘shoot the traitors’.
The furious audience also hurled abusive words blaming the current populace of the valley.
“We will keep going like this, after Kashmir Files, the next places will be Kerala, West Bengal, East Delhi, and many more places,” said a man, who praised the BJP and held Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal responsible for not allowing them to file RTIs.
Pertinently, in July 2021, the Delhi High Court ruled that the disclosure of personal information, which has no relation to any public activity or interest and revelation of which can cause “unwarranted invasion” into the privacy of an individual, cannot be disclosed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
In another video, the audience vows to boycott movies of Salman Khan, Amir Khan and Shahrukh Khan, the three Muslim superstars of the Indian cinema, and take revenge from those responsible for the migration.
Another gathering outside the cinema in Delhi, most of them wearing saffron shawls and Kurtas, chanted Vande Mahtaram slogans and also called for ‘revenge’.
One video shows dozens of men and women including elderly people standing in a queue and chanting slogans like “We want justice, Kashmiri Pandits still exist, Punish the culprits”.
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