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]]>According to the complaint, the film includes dialogues and scenes that allegedly promote caste based humiliation. It has been stated that the film’s title itself appears to be designed to demean a specific community. The controversy intensified after promotional content circulated on streaming platforms and social media, triggering strong reactions from various sections of society.
In Prayagraj, members of the Rashtriya Parashuram Sena Brahmavahini staged a protest and burned an effigy of the film’s producer at Subhash Chauraha. In Varanasi, Brahmin groups gathered at the Ahilyabai Ghat to demonstrate against the film. Protesters demanded an immediate change to the film’s title and strict action against those responsible.
Political reactions also added to the controversy. Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav alleged that the content visible on OTT platforms reflects the preferences of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. He claimed that platforms showcase material aligned with government interests while films and television shows critical of the government face restrictions.
Further escalation occurred after warnings were issued that symbolic rituals would be conducted for actor Manoj Bajpayee and others associated with the film as a mark of protest. Senior police officials in Lucknow confirmed that legal action would be taken based on evidence presented in the case. Authorities stated that investigations would proceed against the film’s director and production team in accordance with the law.
Law enforcement agencies have maintained heightened vigilance to prevent any breach of public order as tensions remain high in several districts.
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Soon after the bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, DMK MP T R Baalu, RSP leader N K Premchandran and others gathered near the Mahatma Gandhi statue. They raised slogans asserting that the country would not tolerate any insult to the Father of the Nation.
Carrying photographs of Mahatma Gandhi, the opposition MPs assembled near the steps of the Makar Dwar of Parliament and marched to Prerna Sthal within the Parliament House complex to register their protest.
Speaking to reporters, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accused the Centre of attempting to dilute and eventually dismantle the MGNREGA, which was enacted in 2005 under the UPA government. She also criticised the Centre’s repeated renaming of welfare schemes, calling it an expensive and unnecessary exercise.
She said,
“Renaming schemes costs the country a lot of money. I do not understand why the government is so obsessed with changing names,”
Priyanka Gandhi argued that while MGNREGA guarantees 100 days of employment to the poorest rural households, the new bill weakens this right despite claims of increasing workdays.
She questioned whether wage rates under the new framework would be raised, pointing out that funds for MGNREGA have been reduced over the years and payments to labourers are often delayed. She also expressed concern that the bill takes away the gram panchayat’s authority to decide local works and fund allocation, transferring greater control to the Centre.
“From every perspective, this bill is wrong,” she said, adding that it undermines decentralised decision-making at the village level.
The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G Bill, 2025), was introduced by Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan amid strong opposition objections over the removal of Mahatma Gandhi’s name. Countering the criticism, Chouhan said
“The government believes in Gandhi’s ideals and claimed the Narendra Modi-led government has done more for rural development than previous administrations.”
Opposition members demanded that the bill be referred to a parliamentary committee for detailed examination and also entered the Well of the House holding pictures of Mahatma Gandhi.
According to the bill, the proposed law provides a statutory guarantee of 125 days of wage employment in a financial year to rural households willing to undertake unskilled manual work. States will be required to frame their own schemes in line with the new legislation within six months of its commencement.
The Rural Development Ministry said,
The bill aims to create a modern statutory framework aligned with the vision of “Viksit Bharat 2047.”
It seeks to generate employment and build durable rural infrastructure through four focus areas, including water security, core rural infrastructure, livelihood-linked assets, and special works to address extreme weather events.
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]]>Speaking to reporters during his visit to Hyderabad, Yadav claimed that more than three crore voters in Uttar Pradesh are at risk of being struck off the rolls. He said the Election Commission should be working to increase voter participation rather than overseeing what he described as “large-scale deletions that threaten the very foundation of democracy.”
“If votes are removed in areas where the BJP has lost, it is nothing less than a conspiracy against democracy,” Yadav said. “This is not the purpose of SIR. This is NRC brought in quietly. They could not implement NRC openly, so they have introduced it under another name.”
Drawing parallels with the National Register of Citizens, Yadav argued that the documentation being sought during the SIR mirrors the same requirements associated with NRC. “If NRC were to be implemented, what documents would people need to show? The same documents are being demanded now,” he alleged.
Yadav also compared the SIR exercise to past policy decisions that, according to him, caused widespread hardship. “People are being troubled again, just like during demonetisation, the COVID period, and the rollout of GST,” he said.
During his Hyderabad visit, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister attended the Vision India – AI Summit, underscoring the growing influence of artificial intelligence across sectors such as agriculture and healthcare. He said the initiative was aimed at shaping a roadmap for “Neo-India” driven by foresight rather than polarisation. “Politics should be about vision, not division,” he remarked.
On the ongoing Parliament Winter Session, Yadav took a sharp dig at the ruling dispensation, saying the most striking feature was that “some people who never sang Vande Mataram are suddenly eager to do so.”
Yadav also held meetings with Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and senior leaders of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, including working president K T Rama Rao. According to an official release, Reddy briefed him on the state government’s development and welfare initiatives.
The Samajwadi Party chief praised the Telangana government’s decision to recognise ‘Sadar’, a festival celebrated by the Yadav community in Hyderabad, as a state festival, calling it a gesture of social inclusion and cultural respect
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]]>As part of the coalition, the PSP leader ran for office under the SP emblem. Akhilesh Yadav, the SP head and Shivpal’s nephew, will chair over the gathering.
“I didn’t get an invitation to the party meeting. I waited two days and postponed all my plans for this meeting, but I was not invited,” Shivpal, a Jaswant Nagar MLA, told ANI.
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]]>The SP head further claimed that the Varanasi District Magistrate (DM) was transferring EVMs without providing local representatives with any knowledge, and he requested the EC to investigate.
Akhilesh Yadav took to Twitter to say that the news of the EVMs being discovered in Varanasi is sending a warning to every assembly in Uttar Pradesh to be on the lookout.
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The Samajwadi Party failed to retain power in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, winning only 47 seats. The BJP won 312 seats in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, and Yogi Adityanath was appointed as the state’s Chief Minister.
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]]>Questions were also raised concerning the Congress’s rebirth, which some politicians present claimed could only happen if the party was “liberated from the Gandhis’ leadership’s clutches,” according to insiders. The Gandhis were not in attendance during the event.
Other politicians pressing for reform in the Congress, such as P Chidambaram, Shashi Tharoor, and Anand Sharma, were among those invited. All three are among the party’s leaders who have raised concerns about the party’s future.
Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, Omar Abdullah of the National Conference, Sanjay Raut of the Shiv Sena, Lalu Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Derek O’Brien of the Trinamool Congress, and Sharad Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party were among the opposition leaders present. The crowd also wished Akhilesh Yadav well in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
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]]>Akhilesh Yadav tweeted,”To avoid giving compensation, the ruthless BJP government in Uttar Pradesh is now lying that only three teachers have died during election duty while the figures given by the teacher’s body is more than 1000″. Adding to this, he said,”The BJP government is creating a world of big lies. How would the heartless BJP members realise the grief to these families?”. He also put up a newspaper story in support of his statement.
उप्र की निष्ठुर भाजपा सरकार मुआवज़ा देने से बचने के लिए अब ये झूठ बोल रही है कि चुनावी ड्यूटी में केवल 3 शिक्षकों की मौत हुई है जबकि शिक्षक संघ का दिया आँकड़ा 1000 से अधिक है।
भाजपा सरकार ‘महा झूठ का विश्व रिकॉर्ड’ बना रही है।
परिवारवालों का दुख ये हृदयहीन भाजपाई क्या जानें। pic.twitter.com/FmfizXfEuI
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) May 19, 2021
The president of Prathmik Shiksha Sangha, Dinesh Chandra Sharma had earlier issued a report which shows the death of 1,621 teachers and workers, since the first week of April. Out of the total numbers, 90% were on the panchayat election duty. Mr. Yadav is also demanding that the families must be paid Rs. 1 crore each for the loss.
On the other hand, the UP state Minister for basic education, Satish Chandra Dwivedi argued the statement. He said that according to the government data, only three teachers have died on the poll duty. All these deaths cannot be accredited to the elections.
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]]>The party has started this by giving the ticket of Ward Panchayat member from ward number 18 to Sandhya Yadav, outgoing vice-president of the district panchayat in Mainpuri.
Sandhya Yadav is the niece of Mulayam Singh, the founder president of Samajwadi Party, the daughter of his elder brother Abhairam Yadav and sister of Dharmendra Yadav, a former SP MP from Badaun.
Sandhya Yadav had won the election of the District Panchayat President on the Samajwadi Party ticket in the year 2015, but this time she has joined the BJP.
Sandhya Yadav’s husband Anujesh Pratap Yadav says that despite being a relative of the top leadership, the party did not honor him, so first he and now his wife have joined the BJP.
Anujesh Pratap Yadav says, “There is nothing new in this. I joined the BJP in the year 2017 itself and while I am here, and my wife does not mean to be in any other party. When the motion of no confidence against us If brought, it was the BJP that helped us and increased our respect. I was in the Samajwadi Party on my own free will, nobody was a slave. “
Sandhya Yadav became the district panchayat president of Mainpuri in 2015. In July 2017, the Samajwadi Party had brought a motion of no confidence against her, but due to manipulation, the no-confidence motion could not be passed.
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