One other stand-up comedy present in Bengaluru is now underneath risk of being cancelled with Proper-wing group Janajagruthi Vedike urging the police to cancel permission given to famous comic Vir Das to carry the present.
A letter submitted on the Vyalikaval police station by Mohan Gowda, state spokesperson of the outfit, demanded that “(sic) this program be canceled instantly.” The comic, in keeping with the petition, had handed derogatory remarks towards girls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and India at a present on the John F Kennedy Heart in Washington DC, which “denigrated the nation”, the outfit added.
The outfit took offence at a line within the Washington present the place Vir Das mentioned, “In India, we worship girls within the day and rape them at night time.”
“On this background, it isn’t proper to permit such a controversial individual to carry such program in a communally delicate space like Bangalore. When Karnataka is already dealing with many regulation and order downside on account of communal accidents, such occasions which might vitiate the regulation and order (state of affairs) and shouldn’t be allowed. We demand that this program must be canceled instantly,” the letter learn.
In September this yr, a present by humorist Atul Khatri was cancelled on the final minute after police denied permission for the present.
The police, nonetheless, had blamed the organisers for the cancellation saying that that they had sought permission for the occasion on the final minute and will have approached the police not less than two days previous to the occasion.
In August, comic Munawar Faruqui’s present was cancelled by the town police after Proper-wing group Jai Shri Ram Sena filed a grievance with the police alleging that his present had damage Hindu sentiments. A present of the identical comic was cancelled in 2021 on account of opposition from Proper-wing teams.