Published 19:29 IST, January 6th 2020
Tajinder Bagga challenges Konkona Sharma to 'prove anti-CAA protest video is doctored'
BJP's Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga has challenged Bollywood actress Konkona Sen Sharma for her allegations that anti-CAA protest video shared by Bagga was doctored
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Delhi BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga challenged Bollywood actress Konkona Sen Sharma for her allegations that the anti-CAA protest video shared by Bagga on Twitter is doctored. Bagga challenged her to prove that the video is doctored, otherwise quit acting.
Challenge accept kro. If video is doctored I will leave Politics and Twitter otherwise you will leave Movies if you are still acting https://t.co/Ppd0Aen66f
— Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga (@TajinderBagga) January 6, 2020
Bagga's tweet, sharing the video of Anti-CAA protest
The BJP leader had shared a video on Twitter of a protest organized in Mumbai against the amended Citizenship Act. Bagga claimed that slogans such as 'freedom from Hindus' were raised in the protest, to which Konkona claimed that the video is doctored and she was present at the protest and claimed that it was peaceful and without hate-mongering.
Muslim and Leftists students in Mumbai again Raised Slogans "Hinduo se Aazadi" but this time not in Jamia or JNU , they raised Hinduo se Aazadi Slogans at Gateway of India Mumbai. Will @MumbaiPolice @OfficeofUT take action or support this goons Silently ? pic.twitter.com/7Cq9ci8tE5
— Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga (@TajinderBagga) January 6, 2020
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Konkona Sen Sharma reacts to Bagga's tweet
You are spreading lies! This is a doctored video! We were there and it was a peaceful protest which spoke of unity, not hate mongering.
— Konkona Sensharma (@konkonas) January 6, 2020
About CAA and the protests
The CAA seeks to give citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian refugees who came to India on or before December 31, 2014, due to religious persecution in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
However, after the bill was passed in both houses of Parliament followed by the President’s assent, protests erupted across the country against the Act. The protests which began in Assam had spread across the country and in universities like Jamia Millia, JNU and Aligarh Muslim University which took a violent turn with stone-pelting and damaging public property. The clash between police and protesters resulted in alleged lathi-charging, tear gas and rubber pellet action by police and vandalism by protestors. Many sections of the nation criticized the alleged brutal police action. Several protestors and police personnel were injured and died in the protests.
Updated 19:49 IST, January 6th 2020