March 17 Amid the ongoing debate over the Hindi film “The Kashmir Files”, which is based on the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in the 1990s, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has claimed that the film shows half-truths and shows only violence without giving any message. Is.
Baghel was talking to reporters after watching the film along with his cabinet colleagues and other MLAs at a multiplex here late on Wednesday.
“… the film shows half truth. It doesn’t suggest any solution and no effort is made in this direction. It has no message and only shows violence which doesn’t make any sense,” said Baghel on his reaction to the film asked for.
He said that the film is based on terrorist incidents and the story focuses on the incident with a family, which takes the film forward.
He said, ‘An attempt was made to give a political message. It is shown in the film that the VP Singh government, which was in power at that time (at the Centre) with the support of the BJP, did not try to stop the Kashmiri Pandits (migration), but asked them to leave,” said the senior Congress leader. .
“The army was not sent there. When former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi raised the issue in the Lok Sabha, the army was sent there.
Further targeting the BJP, Baghel said, even today the problem remains as it is. Article 370 (which ensured special status to Jammu and Kashmir) has been revoked, but no steps have been taken yet to rehabilitate them (Kashmiri Hindus).
Even the film has not suggested any solution to this problem. He claimed that when a film is made, it also has a solution to the problem, but the director ignored it and only a “lecture is given”.
The CM claimed that this (central) government has done only politics after abrogation of Article 370 and no measures have been taken to provide assistance to Kashmiri Pandits.
He also reprimanded the BJP MLAs from Chhattisgarh as they did not come to see the film despite being invited by him, and said that they run away when someone confronts them.
State Congress spokesperson RP Singh said that none of the MLAs of opposition parties in the state- BJP, Bahujan Samaj Party and Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J) came to watch the film along with the CM on Wednesday.
Amid the opposition BJP’s demand for a tax break on ‘The Kashmir Files’ in Chhattisgarh, Baghel on Wednesday said the BJP-led central government should waive the GST on the film so that it becomes tax free in the country.
The CM had invited all the MLAs, including opposition parties, to watch the film at a mall here on Wednesday.
