[FSUG-Bangalore] Virtual Ban on exhibiting Fanna

[Vikram Vincent]

   1. Virtual Ban on exhibiting Fanna

25 May 2006

Press Statement

The virtual ban on the showing of the film Fanna in Gujarat is an indication
of the extreme intolerance displayed by the ruling party and its
organisations in Gujarat to any dissenting opinion.  The reported assurance
of police protection to any film theatre showing the film by the Chief
Minister, Narendra Modi, is an eye-wash since it is under his leadership
that the front organisations of the sangh combine are threatening film
theatre owners against showing the film.  The ire of the protesters is
against the solidarity expressed by actor Aamir Khan for the  demand for
rehabilitation of the thousands of adivasi and peasant families displaced by
the Narmada project.

The state government is behaving as if it is above the Constitution of
India  which grants the freedom of expression to every individual.  Such
actions of the sangh combine in Gujarat under the patronage of the
government has serious implications for democratic rights of the people of
Gujarat and indeed for all Indian citizens.  We demands that the Modi
government and the party he leads uphold the law of the country.
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