BJP leader organises free screening of 'The Kerala Story' to 100 Hindu girls in Lucknow

To prevent them from 'love jihad', 100 Hindu female students of Navyug Kanya Post Graduate College were shown the controversial film 'The Kerala Story' at a cinema hall in Lucknow on Saturday.

The tickets were sponsored by Uttar Pradesh BJP secretary Abhijat Mishra, who also watched the movie along with the female students. The film, starring Adah Sharma, revolves around a group of women in Kerala who are forced to convert and join the ISIS.

Mishra said the movie is based on true events and shows how gullible girls are manipulated and then converted.

"The message which I want to convey to these girls, through this movie, is that they need to be aware and should not fall in any kind of traps, and focus on their studies," he said.

The Opposition, however, said the ruling BJP was using the platform of film-making to propagate its political ideas rather than educate the masses.

Taking umbrage at the screening of the movie, Samajwadi party spokesperson Ameeque Jamei said the BJP should change its name to "Bhartiya Nazi Party" and the Information and Broadcasting ministry to "propaganda ministry".

He also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is talking about a propaganda movie as he has nothing else to talk about. "... this shows that the BJP is losing big time in (poll-bound) Karnataka," Jamei said.