Riot film screening disrupted at Delhi University

"The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students’ wing of the BJP, on Saturday disrupted the screening of a documentary on the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots at Delhi University’s Kirori Mal College (KMC), allegedly for being “anti-Hindu”. Police were called in to control the situation... The incident occurred at the screening of Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai, a film directed by Nakul Singh Sawhney, an FTII graduate. While the organisers claimed they were roughed up by ABVP members, the latter said they intervened at the behest of students who had objections to the “anti-religious” tone and tenor of the film. Sandesh Kirad, a second-year student of Political Science who complained to DUSU, said he found the film objectionable because it blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Jat community for the violence. “I am a Jat and a supporter of Modi and I was offended by how the film blamed them for the violence… I felt this would leave a wrong impact on the minds of students,” he said..."