India turned into a garbage dumping ground by their ideologies
Chennai/IBNS: Actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan on Wednesday hit out at the BJP-led Centre, saying that the country is transformed into a garbage dumping ground from a "Gulistan"(garden), at the Madras University where students are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA), 2019.
"Once it was said about India 'Sare Jahan Ae Achcha, Hindustan Hamara', but no longer it is a Gulistan...it has turned into a garbage dumping ground because of their(BJP's) ideologies," Haasan said quoting Muhammad Iqbal's patriotic song in Urdu, written in the pre-independence era.
Asked about AIADMK' s support to the Act, he said, the ruling party in Tamil Nadu is "obeying its master".
A large numbet of students are protesting in the university campus demanding withdrawal of CAA, which was passed by Parliament last week, and the release of two students detained at Triplicane police station, media reported.
Haasan said the students have told him that they will not be deterred and continue their protests until their two college mates are released and the Centre repealed the CAA.
The police, howeever, have said that the detained students will not be released unless the protest is withdrwan, media reports said.
According to an NDTV report, the police came to the campus after the university authorities had asked for help.
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