BJP MLA Attacks On Javed Akhtar For Comparing Taliban To RSS

Maharashtra BJP MLA Ram Kadam threatened writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar on September 4, saying "Won't allow screening of Javed Akhtar films'' unless he apologies for comparing RSS to the Taliban. Notably, in the interaction with NDTV Akhtar went ahead matching the idealogy of Taliban with RSS and called the BJP has held India a Hindu 'Rashtra or state. ''This statement is not just shameful but painful and humiliating,'' Kadam added.