Reacting to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s comments on movie ‘The Kashmir Files’, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma slammed the statement and asked him not to be “anti-Hindu” stating the Kejriwal has no right to humiliate the society.
In his viral speech in Delhi Assembly, the Delhi CM had accused the BJP leaders of “promoting” the movie and asked the makers of the movie to upload the film on YouTube which attracted backlash against the Chief Minister on social media.
The BJP, attacking Kejriwal over his comments, pointed out several instances in the past when Kejriwal had made other movies tax-free in the national capital but not the Vivek Agnihotri film.
Himanta Biswa Sarma, speaking to reporters, said: “You make it tax-free or not, you do not have the right to humiliate and insult us. You may do whatever you want, but do not be ‘anti-Hindu’ so openly. If our Hindu samaj (society) is in this condition, it is because we are more anti-Hindu within the Hindu family. Otherwise, Hindu civilisation once used to show the path to the world.”
The Assam CM also reminded that Kejriwal has made several movies tax-free in the national capital.
“Arvind Kejriwal has made several movies tax-free in Delhi. I want to ask him why did he not ask to upload all those movies on YouTube? Why do you have interest only in The Kashmir Files being uploaded on YouTube?” he said.
Sarma, earlier on Friday, had accused Mr Kejriwal of using the Delhi assembly “to rub salt in the wound of Hindus”.
“If you don’t want to make #KashmirFiles tax-free, don’t. But stop this constant mocking of Kashmiri Pandits. Their sufferings are a result of such condescending attitude & appeasement politics of secularists. It doesn’t behove a CM to use the Assembly to rub salt in the wound of Hindus,” he had said.
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