By Express News Service
BHOPAL: Just a day after its nationwide theatrical launch, the controversial Adah Sharma-starrer The Kerala Story was declared tax free in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.
The alternative by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan authorities to current tax breaks to the movie (which focuses on the alleged compelled religious conversion of women in Kerala sooner than that they had been inducted into the concern outfit ISIS) occurred six months sooner than the next assembly polls inside the central Indian state.
Announcing the selection himself, the MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan talked about, “The Kerala Story exposes the plot of Love Jihad, religious conversion and terrorism. It brings to the fore, the disgusting face of these menaces. This film also reveals how the lives of those daughters are destroyed, who in momentary emotions get trapped in Love Jihad. It also tells us about the designs of terrorism.”
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“We’ve already enacted a law to stop forced religious conversion in MP. This film needs to be watched by everyone, including parents and children, particularly the daughters. This is why the MP government is declaring this film tax free,” Chouhan declared in a video message.
Just quite a few days up to now, some ruling BJP leaders, along with state social gathering secretary Rahul Kothari, had written to the MP CM requesting him to declare The Kerala Story tax free inside the state.
With Saturday’s enchancment, MP turned the first state inside the nation to current a tax break to the controversial movie.
The Kerala Story has now become the fifth film in three years to have been declared tax free inside the central Indian state.
In January 2020, the then Kamal Nath-led Congress authorities had declared the Deepika Padukone-starrer movie Chhapaak (based mostly totally on the true story of an acid assault survivor lady) tax free.
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The subsequent month, in February 2020, the an identical Congress authorities (just a few days sooner than it was launched down by its private MLAs) had declared Taapsee Pannu-starrer movie Thappad tax free inside the state.
More than two years later in March 2022, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led present BJP authorities declared Vivek Agnihotri-directed The Kashmir Files tax free inside the state.
Three months later the an identical BJP authorities declared the Akshay Kumar-starrer Samrat Prithviraj as tax free.
BHOPAL: Just a day after its nationwide theatrical launch, the controversial Adah Sharma-starrer The Kerala Story was declared tax free in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.
The alternative by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan authorities to current tax breaks to the movie (which focuses on the alleged compelled religious conversion of women in Kerala sooner than that they had been inducted into the concern outfit ISIS) occurred six months sooner than the next assembly polls inside the central Indian state.
Announcing the selection himself, the MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan talked about, “The Kerala Story exposes the plot of Love Jihad, religious conversion and terrorism. It brings to the fore, the disgusting face of these menaces. This film also reveals how the lives of those daughters are destroyed, who in momentary emotions get trapped in Love Jihad. It also tells us about the designs of terrorism.”googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
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“We’ve already enacted a law to stop forced religious conversion in MP. This film needs to be watched by everyone, including parents and children, particularly the daughters. This is why the MP government is declaring this film tax free,” Chouhan declared in a video message.
Just quite a few days up to now, some ruling BJP leaders, along with state social gathering secretary Rahul Kothari, had written to the MP CM requesting him to declare The Kerala Story tax free inside the state.
With Saturday’s enchancment, MP turned the first state inside the nation to current a tax break to the controversial movie.
The Kerala Story has now become the fifth film in three years to have been declared tax free inside the central Indian state.
In January 2020, the then Kamal Nath-led Congress authorities had declared the Deepika Padukone-starrer movie Chhapaak (based mostly totally on the true story of an acid assault survivor lady) tax free.
ALSO READ | The Kerala Story: Ex-top cop who investigated allegations of ‘love jihad’ shares his views
The subsequent month, in February 2020, the an identical Congress authorities (just a few days sooner than it was launched down by its private MLAs) had declared Taapsee Pannu-starrer movie Thappad tax free inside the state.
More than two years later in March 2022, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led present BJP authorities declared Vivek Agnihotri-directed The Kashmir Files tax free inside the state.
Three months later the an identical BJP authorities declared the Akshay Kumar-starrer Samrat Prithviraj as tax free.
