The Hindu Janajagruti Samiti on Monday claimed comic Vir Das’ present ‘hurts non secular sentimes of Hindu(s)’ and has demanded police to cancel a present deliberate in Benglauru on November 10. In a grievance filed on the metropolis’s Vyalikaval Police Station, the perimeter group wrote, “… it’s not proper to permit such a controversial particular person to carry such a program in a communally delicate space like Bangalore. When Karnataka is already going through many law-and-order issues attributable to communal incidents, such occasions might vitiate law-and-order and shouldn’t be allowed. We demand this program be canceled instantly.”
The group additionally referred to Das’ controversial ‘two Indias’ quip at a present in the USA in November final yr; “… earlier he made derogatory statements in opposition to girls, our prime minister and India at John F Kennedy Middle in Washington D.C…. denigrated the nation.”
“He had mentioned ‘In India, we worship girls within the day and rape them at night time’… case was registered by Mumbai (and) Delhi Police. It’s a severe offense…” the group ranted.
Neither Das nor the present’s organisers have responded on the time this report was printed.
In August police in Bengaluru stopped a present by one other controversial comic – Munawar Faruqui. Formally, the present was cancelled as a result of the organisers did not get permission.
Nevertheless, Faruqui later mentioned it was cancelled for well being causes.
Bengaluru police additionally cancelled a present by Faruqui in November final yr; that was after threats by right-wing teams. Reviews mentioned the police issued a letter requesting it’s scrapped as Faruqui would converse ‘in opposition to communities’ and depart the present weak to vandalism.
At the moment Faruqui – arrested in January throughout a present in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore over alleged hate speech throughout one in all his reveals – hinted he would stop stand-up.
Additionally in August, Das shared a clip on Instagram by which he joked about comedians in India getting penalised for ‘hurting sentiments’.