'Emergency Is Here Again', Anurag Kashyap Responds To Section 144 Imposed In Uttar Pradesh

Thousands of political activists, students and even Bollywood celebrities took to the streets to protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. India stood united yesterday. And joining them were many Bollywood stars including filmmaker Anurag Kashyap who has been quite vocal about his stand against the act.

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On Twitter, Anurag Kashyap said that India was witnessing Emergency rule once again.

He wrote this in reply to Uttar Pradesh's DGP OP Singh's tweet. "Sec 144 is in force and no permission for any gathering has been given for 19.12.19. Pls do not participate. Parents r also requested to counsel their children (sic)," he had written.

'Sec 144' is in force and no permission for any gathering has been given for 19.12.19. Pls do not participate. Parents r also requested to counsel their children.

¡ª DGP UP (@dgpup) December 18, 2019

In response to this, Anurag Kashyap tweeted, "Emergency is here again..."

Emergency is here again.. https://t.co/IYEKErm78R

¡ª Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) December 19, 2019

Meanwhile, Anurag Kashyap at the protests told NDTV that the "scared, egoistic, uneducated" government wants to cling on power.

"You have shut down internet in the capital. You have stopped the metro. This is a scared government whose sole agenda is to win elections," he said.

"People are being detained, not allowed to protest - what is the difference between today and the Emergency? Narendra Modi used to abuse the Congress; today, he has become Indira Gandhi himself. And Amit Shah has become Sanjay Gandhi. So what is the difference between them and the ones they abuse?" he added.

Meanwhile, actor Siddharth revealed that after his stand against CAA, he has been receiving threat tweets from people who are followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.