Muzaffarnagar Riots Documentary Is Facing Resistance Over Screening. Here’s Why

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Muzaffarnagar Riots Documentary Is Facing Resistance Over Screening. Here’s Why


A documentary on 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots in western Uttar Pradesh was screened on August 25, 2010 across India in protest to stalling of the documentary screening by the members of right-wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), an all-India student organisation, at Delhi University's Kirori Mal College on August 1, 2015. The documentary Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai by Nakul Singh Sawhney revisits the riots that resulted in at least 62 deaths 93 injured and left more than 50,000 citizens, mostly Muslims, displaced. The documentary follows up the chain of events that led to the outbreak of communal violence in western Uttar Pradesh in 2013 and how the polarized atmosphere in the region gave an edge to Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014 Lok Sabha elections. A man rides his motorbike on a deserted street during a curfew in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh September 8, 2013. | Source: Reuters



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