The screening of a short film featuring Bhopal BJP candidate and Malegoan blast accused Pragya Singh Thakur among others was on Monday stopped midway here by a team of the Election Commission officials and the local police. Following a complaint by the Congress, a team of EC officials and personnel from the M.P. A BVM member, who identified himself as Captain Vikas Pandey, said the Mumbai-based producer-director of the film, Rajiv Pandey, wanted to the launch the short film from MP. “They are free to show the short film after May 12 when elections for Bhopal Lok Sabha seat gets over. The short film contends that Thakur and other “Hindu personalities” were held on “cooked up” terror charges by the Congress-led UPA government.

Source: The Hindu May 06, 2019 16:30 UTC