Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, whose movie ‘The Kashmir Files’ has stirred up a political controversy, has been granted Y class safety by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Friday. Sources mentioned the quilt can be supplied by the CRPF. Agnihotri would be the 118th protectee below the CRPF.
Sources mentioned the choice was taken within the wake of opposition his movie is going through from sure quarters and apprehensions that some communities could also be harm by his presentation of occasions that led to the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley within the 90s.
“An evaluation by the Intelligence Bureau has discovered that there’s a menace to his life. Based on the inputs, Y class safety has been supplied to him throughout the nation,” a house ministry official mentioned.
The film is being actively pushed by the federal government with all BJP-ruled states both declaring the movie tax-free or giving authorities staff particular go away to look at the movie. The Opposition, in the meantime, has known as the movie one-sided and too violent.
In a searing assault on the opponents of the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, referring to the response to ‘The Kashmir Files’, Tuesday mentioned that it has rattled the “entire ecosystem” which claims to be the torchbearer of freedom of expression however doesn’t need the reality to be instructed.
Addressing a gathering of BJP MPs after the social gathering returned to energy in 4 states, Modi mentioned it isn’t a difficulty a few movie, however that of “bringing out the truth” and “presenting history in its correct perspective” earlier than the nation since this has been lengthy “suppressed” by the “poori jamaat (entire group)”.
Following the discharge of the movie, DCPs in each district of Delhi have been requested to make elaborate safety preparations in areas with “mixed population” to keep away from any untoward incident.
In a letter issued on March 14 to the DCPs of all of the districts, PCRs and visitors, the DCP (particular department) mentioned, “The film relies on the lives of Kashmiri Pandits and reportedly relies on true occasions. It depicted the barbarism dedicated in opposition to Kashmiri Hindus in its crudest type.”
The letter added: “It is claimed that the one-sided view of the event could possibly trigger violence between communities.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
