Lagatar24 Desk
Srinagar, May 16: Farooq Abdullah, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, demanded that the Vivek Agnihotri-directed film ‘The Kashmir Files’ be banned, claiming that it had instilled hate in the country. He also said the film baseless, claiming that the incidents depicted in it were all made up.
The comments came a day after leaders of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, including Abdullah and PDP head Mehbooba Mufti, met with LG Manoj Sinha to discuss recent violent incidents in the Valley.
“We met LG Manoj Sinha. The purpose of it was that the law and order situation is bad here. While tourists are visiting the Valley, people are being killed on a daily basis,” he said.
“If we have to come closer to each other, this hatred has to end. ‘The Kashmir Files’ shows a Muslim killing a Hindu and rinsing the rice in his blood and telling his wife to eat it? This is a baseless film that has not only created hatred in the country but also among the youth of the valley that how they are being looked at,” he added.
Notably Manoj Sinha, the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, announced on Sunday that security would be increased in the Valley’s residential regions for government Kashmiri Pandit personnel, as well as an investigation into the tear gas shelling event against them during the protest.
On Thursday, the assassination of Rahul Bhat, a Kashmiri Pandit and government employee, sparked street protests in which teargas was deployed to disperse the crowd. The J-K government formed a SIT to investigate the murder after the protest.
