New Delhi:
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s film wing, the Chitrapat Sena, on Friday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to all Pakistani artists to leave the country or else it will send them by force.
The MNS Chitrapat Sena's president Amey Khopkar has issued a statement, which says, “We gave a 48 hour deadline to Pakistani actors and artists to leave India or MNS will push them out."
The MNS’s diktat comes at a time when ties between India and Pakistan are particularly tense, after the attack by infiltrators in Uri, Kashmir, which left 18 Indian military personnel dead.
MNS has also threatened to block the release of Shah Rukh Khan starrer ‘Raees’ and Ranbir and Aishwarya's next ‘Aae Dil Hai Mushkil’ as the movies have Pakistani actors, Mahira Khan and Fawad Khan, respectively.
The MNS' strident anti-Pakistan stance is not new.
In January this year, the Raj Thackeray-headed political organisation had threatened to disrupt a proposed concert by ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali, if it was held in Mumbai. Ali's concert, which had incidentally been planned by the Nationalist Congress Party, and was scheduled for a month after the Pathankot terror attack, was finally cancelled.
In October 2015, the MNS had refused to allow the screening of Pakistani actress Mahira Khan's film Bin Roye in Maharashtra.
