More BJP-run states make ‘Kashmir Files’ tax-free

At least six BJP-ruled states have introduced to make The Kashmir Files, a movie depicting the exodus of the Pandit neighborhood from the Valley within the early 90s, tax-free on the fourth day of its launch Monday.

Urging “everyone to watch the movie”, Chief Ministers of some states even accompanied their members of the family or colleagues to theatres.

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath issued directions to make the film tax-free. Speaking to The Indian Express, Mavneed Sehgal, Additional Chief Secretary info, stated,”Orders have been issued to make Kashmir Files tax-free in UP.”

In Madhya Pradesh, policemen might be given particular depart to observe the movie, Home Minister Narottam Mishra stated.

This got here a day after CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan exempted the movie from leisure tax, calling it a “heart-wrenching narration of the pain, suffering, struggle, and trauma faced by Kashmiri Hindus in the 90s”.

In Karnataka, BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal introduced he’ll fund one present per day for every week “so that people can watch it free of cost”. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai had on Sunday exempted the film from being taxed.

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, whose authorities has additionally granted tax-free standing to the movie, additionally watched the film. He was accompanied by a few of his occasion MLAs. “All that happened in Kashmir at that time should be known to the people,” he stated after the present.

Caretaker CM of Goa, Pramod Sawant watched the movie at a multiplex in Panaji alongside along with his spouse Sulakshana Sawant and state BJP president Sadanand Tanavade. He additionally invited mediapersons to accompany him.

After the present, Sawant, who stated the movie can be made tax-free, focused the Congress, saying: “Some people in Goa had opposed this film and that is why I made it a point to watch it.”

“After watching it I felt that what happened in Kashmir in 1990 should be known to all, especially to today’s youth. The Congress (supported) government in 1990 committed atrocities not only against Kashmiri Pandits but against the people of Kashmir,” he stated. The movie has additionally been declared tax-free in Gujarat.

Meanwhile, senior BJP chief and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje requested the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress authorities to declare the movie tax-free. —With PTI inputs