How UP has done better than rajasthan/haryana
Over 200 shows are available in Lucknow, Noida and Ghaziabad if one wishes to see Padmaavat on Saturday. The movie running to packed houses in Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh and scenes from two days ago when UP police gave a sound thrashing to protesting Karni Sen cadre, are in sharp contrast to the BJP-ruled states of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh where the movie has failed to hit a single scene despite the Supreme Court's orders.
Highlighting the irony here is the fact that Adityanath is himself a Rajput leader.
Sample this. On the eve of Padmaavat's release, when the Karni Sena bosses issued dire threats at a press conference in Jaipur, sending a message to their cadre across states to unleash violence, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje was busy campaigning in Ajmer the entire day. On Thursday, when the movie was released in none of the 179 cinema halls in the state and the Karni Sena bosses continued to roam free, the CM spent the day in Alwar, another of the two Lok Sabha seats in the state where bypolls will be held on January 29.
There is, of course, an election to be fought and won. For the record, the police chief of Rajasthan, OP Galhotra, says no pressure was exerted on distributors or cinema halls to not screen the movie and asserted that adequate security was assured to all. The other two states may take this line as well if the Supreme Court hauls them up for contempt as a petition on the same will be heard on Monday.
But inaction by Rajasthan government in acting against the Karni Sena flies in the face of such arguments. Both Lokendra Singh Kalvi and Mahipal Singh Makrana of the Karni Sena remain free and have not been put even under preventive detention, a legal provision in the law to detain someone in the anticipation of violence or a threat to law and order. The Rajasthan CM maintained a studied silence, refraining from issuing any public assurance, or meeting, with the state's distributors or cinema owners to screen the film without any fear. .
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, on the other hand, chose to "advise in personal capacity" that cinema owners should not screen the movie, a stand also taken by the Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister, Nitin Patel. more
Highlighting the irony here is the fact that Adityanath is himself a Rajput leader.
Sample this. On the eve of Padmaavat's release, when the Karni Sena bosses issued dire threats at a press conference in Jaipur, sending a message to their cadre across states to unleash violence, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje was busy campaigning in Ajmer the entire day. On Thursday, when the movie was released in none of the 179 cinema halls in the state and the Karni Sena bosses continued to roam free, the CM spent the day in Alwar, another of the two Lok Sabha seats in the state where bypolls will be held on January 29.
There is, of course, an election to be fought and won. For the record, the police chief of Rajasthan, OP Galhotra, says no pressure was exerted on distributors or cinema halls to not screen the movie and asserted that adequate security was assured to all. The other two states may take this line as well if the Supreme Court hauls them up for contempt as a petition on the same will be heard on Monday.
But inaction by Rajasthan government in acting against the Karni Sena flies in the face of such arguments. Both Lokendra Singh Kalvi and Mahipal Singh Makrana of the Karni Sena remain free and have not been put even under preventive detention, a legal provision in the law to detain someone in the anticipation of violence or a threat to law and order. The Rajasthan CM maintained a studied silence, refraining from issuing any public assurance, or meeting, with the state's distributors or cinema owners to screen the film without any fear. .
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, on the other hand, chose to "advise in personal capacity" that cinema owners should not screen the movie, a stand also taken by the Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister, Nitin Patel. more
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Hopefully U.P. will show more progressive result in all aspect including law & order,Employment generation,Infrastructure, Education & Health etc. & inefficient Minister ,Officers will be identified. more
Jan 27
Yes Yogiji is far better. He is progressive and his counterpart from Rajasthan and Haryana are old school fools. more
Jan 27
