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Will Javed Akhtar Apologise To BJP For Comparison Between Taliban & RSS?

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OB Bureau

Mumbai: Film writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar’s comparison between Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Taliban has not gone down well with BJP’s youth wing and several of them landed outside his Juhu home to protest.

In an interview with NDTV recently, Akhtar said that the Taliban are barbaric, their actions are reprehensible, but those supporting the RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal are all the same.

“Of course, the Taliban is barbaric, and their actions are reprehensible, but those supporting the RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal are all the same. India is a secular nation and the people, the population is largely secular, but there are those who support organisations like the RSS and VHP and people like Golwalkar, etc, who have the same ideology that of the Nazis of the 1930s. The Taliban may be more empowered with weapons, but the view, outlook, and ideology are mirroring each other,” he said in the interview.

Earlier, Maharashtra MLA and BJP spokesperson Ram Kadam said that no film involving writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar will be allowed to be screened in the country till he apologises to functionaries of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for comparing it to the Taliban.

“This statement by Javed Akhtar is not just shameful, but painful and humiliating for crores of functionaries of the Sangh and the Vishva Hindu Parishad and crores of people across the world who follow their ideology,” Kadam said in a video message that he also shared on Twitter.

However, some have also come in support of Akhtar condemning those who are asking people to boycott him.

Here’s what people are saying

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OB Bureau

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