Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of Parliament from North East Delhi Manoj Tiwari has requested the Bollywood movie The Kashmir Files, which is based on the exodus and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits in the early 1990s, should be exempted from tax in Delhi.
“Please make The Kashmir Files film tax free in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal ji and Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Manish Sisodia ji,” Tiwari took it to twitter.
कृपया कष्ट कर #TheKashmirFiles फ़िल्म को दिल्ली में टैक्स फ़्री करे मुख्यमंत्री @ArvindKejriwal जी , उपमुख्यमंत्री और वित मंत्री @msisodia जी आप को करना चाहिए 🙏
— Manoj Tiwari (मोदी का परिवार) 🇮🇳 (@ManojTiwariMP) March 13, 2022
The Kashmir Files written & directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri and produced by Zee Studios has been declared tax free in some of the BJP-ruled states like Haryana, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh.
Earlier, Agnihotri has directed Buddha in a Traffic Jam (2016), Junooniyat (2016), The Tashkent Files (2019) to name a few.
Tiwari said the movie should be exempted from tax so that more people watch it and become aware of the contemporary history of the country as the issue of Kashmiri Pandits is neither discussed nor examined in the mainstream as much as it should have.
Meanwhile, top BJP leaders in Delhi are promoting and offering free tickets for the movie that stars Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Joshi among others. BJP national spokesperson RP Singh, tweeted, “I am offering free tickets to college students from Rajinder Nagar Constituency for Kashmir Files. Let the new generation visit the history which scarred the soul of the nation.”
I am offering free ticket to college students from RajinderNagar Constituency for #KashmirFiles at Nairana PVR. Let the new generation visit the history which scarred the soul of the nation. DM your number@AnupamPKher @KashmiriPandit7 @ApanditPandit @ashokepandit @AdityaRajKaul https://t.co/wXIHGIxoci
— RP Singh Ntnl Spokesperson BJP (Modi Ka Parivar) (@rpsinghkhalsa) March 12, 2022
Meanwhile, BJP MLA Nitesh Rane has written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray requesting that the recently-released film ‘The Kashmir Files’ be exempted from entertainment tax in the state. Rane written in his letter sent on Saturday that the tax break will enable people to see for the first time the “correct and true depiction of atrocities inflicted by Muslim terrorists on the Hindu community” in Jammu and Kashmir.
#KashmirFiles @CMOMaharashtra @BJP4Maharashtra pic.twitter.com/3X3hzwiPMF
— nitesh rane ( Modi ka Parivar ) (@NiteshNRane) March 13, 2022