Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Tuesday slammed BJP chief Khushbu Sundar for her remarks backing ”The Kerala Story”, and accused her of indulging in politics of supporting that ”which fuels hatred”.

Sibal’s assault got here a day after Sundar voiced assist for the film and puzzled as to ”what scares those that are preventing to ban” the movie. ”The blatantly informed fact or the concern of realising of being a part of the reality, unknowingly and silently for years. Let folks resolve what they wish to watch. You can’t resolve for others. Tamil Nadu authorities offers lame causes to cancel the reveals. Thank you for letting folks know that it is a should watch movie,” Sundar tweeted, utilizing the hashtag ‘The Kerala Story A Must Watch’.

Reacting to her remarks, Sibal mentioned on Twitter, ”BJP’s Khushbu Sundar on Kerala Files: ‘Let folks resolve what they wish to watch. You can’t resolve for others’. Then why protest towards:Aamir Khan’s ‘PK’, Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Pathaan’, screening of ‘Bajirao Mastani’.” ”Your politics: Support that which fuels hatred!” mentioned Sibal, who was a Union minister throughout UPA 1 and a couple of. He stop the Congress May final yr and was elected to the Rajya Sabha as an Independent member with the Samajwadi Party’s assist.

He not too long ago floated a non-electoral platform ‘Insaaf’ aimed toward preventing injustice.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday ordered a direct ban on the screening of the controversial movie ”The Kerala Story” within the state to keep away from any incident of hatred and violence, a senior state authorities official mentioned.

West Bengal turned the primary state to ban the movie, an motion which Union Minister Anurag Thakur mentioned was past his understanding why the Trinamool Congress(TMC) chief’s sympathies had been with terror organisations and never with the harmless ladies from Kerala. Thakur additionally watched the movie at a cinema corridor in Delhi.

Directed by Sudipto Sen, the movie depicts how girls from Kerala had been compelled to transform to Islam and recruited by the fear group Islamic State (IS). The movie, which was launched on May 5, has kicked up a political storm.

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