NEW DELHI: The Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal lashes out at the BJP leaders in the Delhi Assembly for their interruption demanding the 'The Kashmir Files' to be tax-free in Delhi.
During the Budget session proceedings on Thursday, the BJP MLAs said that the movie should be exempted from the entertainment tax in the cinema hall of the national capital Delhi.
On this CM Kejriwal says the leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party to ask the maker of the film Vivek Agnihotri to upload the film on the video streaming platform of Youtube so that everyone can watch it free of cost.
The saffron party members demanded the movie to be made available to watch without tax but Kejriwal's comments taunting the BJP leaders targeted their politics with the movie poster.
Retaliating to this, Assam Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma took to his social media and wrote, "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 wound of Hindus."
Kejriwal asked the BJP leader in the Assembly why they so badly want the film to be made tax-free and suggested them a way of asking the film's maker to put the whole film on YouTube where everyone can easily access the film by paying nothing.
On mentioning about the Prime Minister's endorsement of 'The Kashmir Files', Kejriwal said that if after 8 years a PM has to take shelter at the feet of director Vivek Agnihotri then he the Prime Minister did nothing during his tenure.
The CM continues his speech saying that some people are earning crores of rupees in the name of Kashmiri Hindus and the BJP leaders have been told to put up the movie's poster.
In a recent big success of the movie 'The Kashmir Files' showing the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits has entered the Rs 200 crore club.
On Thursday, the veteran actor Anupam Kher starrer has become the highest-grossing Hindi movie during the pandemic period.
Notably, in 8 Indian states ruled by BJP the film has been made tax-free to watch in theatres and those states include UP, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Gujarat, Goa and Tripura.
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