Right step at right time on film: DGP
The DGP said that he was aware of the challenges, but added that the law and order situation in UP had improved in the past few months.
Lucknow: The newly-appointed UP DGP has said that the police force would take “right steps at the right time” on the “Rajput threat” to Padmaavat, which releases on Thursday.
O.P. Singh, a 1993 batch IPS officer, was responding to questions from the media shortly after taking over as DGP.
Even as the DGP assured a smooth release for the film, Muslims in Barabanki burnt effigies of filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali and said that they would join the Rajputs in preventing the release of the film.
In view of this new development, the state government is now gearing up to ensure proper security for Padmaavat after the Supreme Court rejected petitions from Rajasthan and Gujarat governments that had sought a stay on the film’s release.
It is noteworthy that various Rajput groups had held protests in various districts and even vandalised theatres that had put up posters of the controversial film. The protesters have been asking theatre owners not to screen the film in their halls.
The UP unit of Karni Sena, apparently disappointed after the SC verdict, said that they would reiterate their appeal for a janata curfew on the day of the film’s release.
Meanwhile, the DGP said that he was aware of the challenges, but added that the law and order situation in UP had improved in the past few months.