The Kashmir Files, a 170-minute Bollywood film on the tragedy of Kashmiri Pandits, or Brahmins—the Hindu religion’s priestly highest caste—was released in Indian theatres in March. In Muslim-dominated Kashmir, Hinduism is a minority faith, and Pandits fled in droves in the 1990s when they were targeted by Pakistan-backed militant Islamists.
The protest, according to Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, is mostly in response to Arvind Kejriwal’s declaration that the film is “a fraud and making fun in the assembly.”
BJP leaders will oppose Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s address in the Delhi assembly against the Bollywood film The Kashmir Files on Wednesday. The protest march will begin from IP College and end at the house of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, the national secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s youth wing, indicated that the demonstration will be led by Tejasvi Surya, the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha. The protest, according to Bagga, is mostly in response to Kejriwal’s assertion that the film is “a fraud and mockery in the assembly.”
After organizing protests on Saturday and Monday, the BJP is holding its third demonstration in the national capital on the topic.
Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, the Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, claimed that the type of growth that has occurred in Kashmir in the last seven years has not occurred in the preceding 60 years.
Kejriwal had previously attacked the BJP for marketing The Kashmir Files and demanded that it be made tax-free in Delhi, saying that “certain individuals were making millions” by abusing Kashmiri Pandits’ agony, while BJP officials had been “reduced” to putting up movie posters.
