A case of sedition was filed by the Lakshadweep police on Thursday towards native resident, activist and filmmaker Aisha Sultana for calling the Union Territory’s administrator Praful Okay Patel a “bioweapon”. The case was filed based mostly on a grievance raised by the BJP Lakshadweep president C Abdul Khader Haji, who alleged that Sultana criticised the Centre and Patel throughout a debate on a Malayalam information channel concerning the ongoing political disaster in Lakshadweep.
Justifying her assertion in a current Facebook submit, Sultana wrote, “I had used the word bio-weapon in the TV channel debate. I have felt Patel as well as his policies [have acted] as a bio-weapon. It was through Patel and his entourage that Covid-19 spread in Lakshadweep. I have compared Patel as a bioweapon, not the government or the country…. You should understand. What else should I call him…”
Sultana has been on the forefront of the current marketing campaign towards the just lately proposed laws and controversial reform measures which have triggered widespread anger amongst locals.
So, who’s Aisha Sultana?
Aisha Sultana, a local of Lakshadweep’s Chetlat island, is an actor, mannequin and director. Aisha has beforehand labored as an affiliate director on the units of the Malayalam movie ‘Kettyolaanu Ente Malaakha’. She made her directorial debut in 2020, with the unbiased Malayalam movie ‘Flush’.
In his grievance towards Sultana, Haji mentioned that the filmmaker known as Patel a “bio-weapon” that was being wielded by the Central authorities throughout a information debate on the Malayalam channel, ‘MediaOne TV’. The remarks had sparked protests from the BJP’s Lakshadweep unit. BJP employees had moved complaints towards Aisha in Kerala as properly.
Expressing solidarity with Sultana, the Lakshadweep Sahitya Pravarthaka Sangam condemned the sedition prices towards her. “It just isn’t correct to depict her as anti-national. She had reacted towards the inhumane strategy of the administrator. It was Patel’s interventions that made Lakshadweep a Covid-affected space. The cultural neighborhood in Lakshadweep would stand along with her,’’ spokesperson Okay Bahir mentioned.
Several different politicians and activists have since taken to social media to protest towards the submitting of the sedition case towards Sultana.
The case beneath Sections 124 A (sedition) and 153 B (hate speech) was registered at Kavaratti police station on Thursday.
