In the recently released film The Kashmir Files, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday slammed the “ecosystem that is involved in burying the truths” and urged the Bharatiya Janata Party’s lawmakers to stand up for those who “brings out the truths and facts that have been suppressed for years.”
Referring to the uproar over The Kashmir Files, the Prime Minister said while addressing the BJP’s Members of Parliament in the parliamentary party meeting that the reluctance over presenting history and historical figures in the right perspective has led to the delayed recognition of Mahatma Gandhi as well.
In a rare move, the BJP even released the video of the PM’s speech in which he referred to the film. “History has to be presented in the right context before the society from time to time. Just as books, poetry and literature play a role in this, in the same way even films can also do so.
“Post India’s Independence, we have been hearing about Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela but not so much about Mahatma Gandhi. Had someone taken the effort to make a film on Gandhi and presented it to the world, the message may have been delivered. For the first time, a foreigner made a film on Gandhi and even won an award for it, that is when they got to know how great Gandhi was,” he told party MPs.
He also urged the MPs to “stand for truth” and said, “It is the responsibility of those who stand for truth to stand for this as well. I hope that everyone will fulfil this.” But Modi expressed happiness over those leaders who had kept such issues behind them and worked for the party’s victory in the states.
