The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday made ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie tax-free in the state. “TheKashmirFiles film has been made tax-free in Uttar Pradesh,” Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in a tweet in Hindi. Several other BJP-ruled states have made the Vivek Agnihotri-directed movie tax-free, including Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Goa, and Haryana.
Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who watched the film in Lucknow, in a tweet in Hindi said, “The film The KashmirFiles is based on the pain and injury of Kashmiri Hindus. It is a film based on true incidents. After seeing the movie yesterday (Monday), I can say that this film needs to be seen by more and more people.”
In Maharashtra – where the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP’s Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance is in power – the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded the Uddhav Thackeray government also waive tax on the movie.
While BJP MLA Mangal Prabhat Lodha raised this issue in the legislative assembly on Monday, BJP MLA Nitesh Rane wrote to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. BJP MLA Ram Kadam said if the movie isn’t made tax-free in the state, then all Hindus will protest on the streets.
