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By Rittick Mondal: West Bengal Women and Social Welfare Minister Shashi Panja on Tuesday said the Trinamool Congress will legally respond to director Vivek Agnihotri’s legal notice to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Agnihotri sent a legal notice to the CM over her comments on his film ‘The Kashmir Files’
Shashi Panja said that although Agnihotri has a right to go to court, Mamata Banerjee isn’t in the wrong. Speaking to India Today, she said, “He has the right to file a legal notice. He is a citizen of this country; he can go to court. But Didi (Mamata Banerjee) is in a constitutional position and as the chief minister of a state, she doesn’t want a movie to create a divide among communities. They want to create disturbance peace in Bengal with political purposes. They cannot provoke people with any film.”
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“He can file a case if he wants, It’s his right. We will fight it legally”, she added.
Mamata Banerjee, during a press briefing in the state secretariat in Kolkata, had critcised ‘The Kashmir Files’ and said it was made to “humiliate one section”.
She had said, “What is ‘The Kashmir Files’? It is to humiliate one section. What is ‘The Kerala Story’?… It is a distorted story. BJP is showing The Kerala Story, a distorted story. A few days back, some stars funded by BJP came to Bengal, and with some distorted and concocted story, they are preparing Bengal Files.”
Vivek Agnihotri’s film ‘The Kashmir Files’ was based on the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir in the 1990s due to the rise of militancy in the valley.
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