{"id":36669,"date":"2018-01-24T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T09:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=36669"},"modified":"2018-01-24T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T10:04:37","slug":"padmaavat-rajput-groups-continue-deny-facts-defy-country-constitutional-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/padmaavat-rajput-groups-continue-deny-facts-defy-country-constitutional-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Padmaavat: Rajput Groups Continue To Deny Facts, Defy Country And Constitutional Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"
Above: An Ahmedabad shopping mall <\/em>vandalised by “<\/em>Padmaavat” protesters on Jan 23, 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n By Rajesh Sinha<\/strong><\/p>\n Mobs defied the nation\u2019s Constitutionally established institutions and law to perpetrate violence over an imagined sense of hurt pride due to a wrongly assumed derogatory portrayal of the fictional character of Rani Padmini, claiming it amounts to \u2018distortion of history\u2019.<\/p>\n The film Padmaavat, based on a story by Malik Muhammad Jayasi, is in the eye of a storm with Rajput groups who persist in issuing threats and carrying them out in different parts of the country.<\/p>\n Strangely, none of the TV news channels, whose influence on moulding opinion is hugely disproportionate to the facts and reason they air, questioned this claim of Rajput leaders about alleged distortion of history. They did, however, ask these \u2018custodians\u2019 of their clan\u2019s pride, if they had seen the film and knew what it shows. None had, so far. Others \u2013 journalists \u2013 who saw it on Tuesday said the film was all about Rajput valour and pride and villainy of Alauddin Khilji, both features in accordance with what Rajput groups claim to be facts: The review of the movie in The Indian Express says explicitly that the \u201centire film is a relentlessly opulent, magnificently-mounted paean to Rajput \u2018aan baan shaan\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n The Rajput character of valour and fairness portrayed in the film seemed to have evaporated as, refusing to relent, Rajput groups continued to issue threats and resort to violence over the release of \u2018Padmaavat\u2019 even after the Supreme Court<\/a> rejected all appeals to prevent the film from being screened and ordering the state governments to ensure peace and order.<\/p>\n Padmaavat is scheduled to be released on Thursday, 25 January.<\/p>\n On Wednesay, January 24, a threat by a group of Rajasthani women to commit jauhar in Chittorgarh fizzled out with Rajasthan Police foiling their plans.<\/p>\n Groups of Rajput men and women that marched to the Chittorgarh Fort were stopped by Rajasthan Police, who had thrown a barricade around Chittorgarh Fort to stop the protesters from entering the fort premises. The women who managed to sneak in were escorted out by the police, said media reports.<\/p>\n In Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s home state of Gujarat, a protest against release of Padmaavat turned violent on Tuesday as a group went on the rampage vandalising theatres and multiplexes and shops and set more than three dozen vehicles ablaze in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n The reason for their ire and the violence had no basis: the cinema halls association has decided to not to release movie in cinema halls.<\/p>\n A 2000 strong mob reportedly went on rampage, targeting three city malls with multiplexes and a cinema hall, and damaging more than 150 four-wheelers and two-wheelers.<\/p>\n