"Fascism threatens to strike us": more than 100 filmmakers publish a statement against BJP vote

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More than 100 filmmakers from across the country came together to appeal to the public, demanding that the current BJP government no longer be in power in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. entitled "Save democracy", they wrote: "Fascism threatens to hit us hard with all its might if we do not choose wisely in the next elections of Lok Sabha." Period. "

" A country polarized according to religious criteria is not India that we have known.Also, the BJP and its allies have failed miserably to keep their election promises.They now use the lynching of the crowd and the militancy of the cows to divide the country in common The marginalization of Dalits and Muslims is the name of the game.

They spread their hate campaigns with the help of the Internet and social media. Patriotism is their badet. Anyone or institution that raises the slightest dissent is called anti-national.Patriotism is the way they develop their vote banks.Not forget that some of our eminent writers and media personalities have lost their lives because they dared to disbadociate, "reads the statement.

They call on the country to "choose a government that respects the Indian Constitution, protects our freedom of speech and expression, and abstains from any kind of censorship".

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Among the filmmakers are veteran documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan, winner of the Vetri Maran National Award, who recently directed director Dhanush-starrer Vada Chennai, famed producer / director in Malayalam popular Aashiq Abu, festival director Bina Paul, and 39, other well-known independent filmmakers such as Gurvinder Singh Devashish Makhija, Pushpendra Singh, Sbad Kumar Sasidharan and Kabir Singh Chowdhry.

You can read the full statement here.