Day after West Bengal bans 'The Kerala Story', UP makes Sudipto Sen, Adah Sharma's film tax-free
Tuesday, 9 May 2023 (10:50 IST)
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday announced that the recently released film ‘The Kerala Story’ will be tax-free in the state.
Uttar Pradesh has become the second state after Madhya Pradesh to make the debated film ‘tax-free’.
UP BJP secretary Raghvendra Mishra had recently shown the Adah Sharma-film to 100 girl students in Lucknow.
Invoking “The Kerala Story’ during a Karnataka poll rally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Congress for standing with terror tendencies by opposing the docu-film, which is based on a terror conspiracy.
"It is said that the Kerala story is based on terrorist conspiracies in just one state. The terrorist conspiracy going on in Kerala, such a beautiful state of the country, where people are so hardworking and talented, has been revealed in this film. But, look at the misfortune of the country that today the Congress is seen standing with this terroristic tendency which is destroying the society," PM Modi said, addressing a public rally in Ballari.
However, the West Bengal government on Monday banned the Sudipto Sen-directorial.
Mamata Banerjee had said the decision to ban 'The Kerala Story' has been taken to maintain peace in the state and avoid violence.
The film claims that young Hindu women were radicalised and converted to Islam in Kerala and inducted into the terrorist outfit Islamic State (IS).
