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Staff correspondent, August 5, 2015, NewsCrunch
A six-minute-long video shows a group of ABVP activists barging into a Kirori Mal College of Delhi University to forcefully stop the screening of Muzaffarnagar Baaqui Hai.
Shot by Nakul Singh Sawhney, Muzaffarnagar Baaqui Hai allegedly depicts Hindutva forces in bad light for their role in the 2013 riots in the UP district of the same name.
On August 1, the
The video below shows ABVP members barging in to stop the screening. The teachers patiently request them to watch the film and join the discussion.
The audience, mostly the DU students, are asked to vote if they wanted to stop or continue with the screening. Everyone voted to watch the movie.
The audience, mostly the DU students, are asked to vote if they wanted to stop or continue with the screening. Everyone voted to watch the movie.
But ABVP activists insisted on having their way and their threat of physical violence forced the organisers to give in.
ABVP activists also threatened a person, who was capturing the incident on his mobile camera, and made him stop.
A student who spoke after the documentary was disrupted said it was moving in the right direction.
Another student said he felt the documentary was sensationalising a bit, but after seeing ABVP first hand, he said the movie was right.
ABVP activists also threatened a person, who was capturing the incident on his mobile camera, and made him stop.
A student who spoke after the documentary was disrupted said it was moving in the right direction.
Another student said he felt the documentary was sensationalising a bit, but after seeing ABVP first hand, he said the movie was right.
The Telegraph reports that after Muzaffarnagar Baaqui Hai was stopped, students across the universities in India , from JNU to Central university, Hyderabad , are getting ready to screen it in protest.