Rush Hour: HC tells BMC to restore Dia Mirza Diwali video, NC Srinagar MP resigns and more
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The Bombay High Court said it was disturbed by remarks made by some politicians targeting actor Dia Mirza for a video she had shot on behalf of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, urging Mumbai residents not to light firecrackers on the streets during Diwali. The court directed the municipal corporation to re-upload the video to “restore the confidence of the people”.
The municipal corporation had removed the video from its social media handles after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s city unit chief Ameet Satam declared, “We don’t need lessons on how to celebrate Diwali from Dia Mirza.”
The court said that the objections to Mirza’s participation in the civic body’s anti-pollution campaign were unfortunate and appeared to have given the matter a communal angle. Read on.
Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference’s Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, left the party and resigned from his parliamentary seat. He said Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was “incompetent” and accused the ruling...