Violence Erupts In JNU During Screening Of 'Sabarmati'
An incident of violence erupted in the JNU campus while the screening of the recently released movie ‘Sabarmati’ was held today. Reportedly, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhya Parishad (ABVP) organized the screening at the campus and scores of students were present at the moment when the incident occurred.
According to the reports, the posters of the film were torn down and stone pelting happened at the campus. The Sabarmati Report, featuring Vikrant Massey, Raashi Khanna, and Ridhi Dogra was being screened at JNU on Thursday.
The ABVP has targeted the leftist forces on the campus for allegedly involved in disrupting the screening and inciting violence today.
VIDEO | Stone pelting reported at JNU campus in Delhi ahead of the screening of ‘The Sabarmati Report’. More details awaited.
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Produced by Shobha Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Motion Pictures, along with Amul V Mohan and Anshul Mohan, The Sabarmati Report movie claims to be based on the real events surrounding the burning of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra in 2002, killing 59 people, mostly Hindu pilgrims and karsevaks returning from Ayodhya. The movie is alleged to be political propaganda dressed in a factual thriller, presenting only one aspect of the incident.
It was alleged that the right-wing groups used and abused the incident, resulting in a widely polarised Gujarat for political gains. Then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was alleged to have been complicit in the following riots that killed over 1,000 people, mostly from the Muslim minorities, by allegedly giving a free hand to the rioters to unleash violence against the victims.
