Four Shiv Sena men held for disrupting Pakistani play in Gurgaon

Witness, nevertheless, stated the activists claimed that they have been members of the Shiv Sena.

Gurgaon: Activists of a Hindu right wing late on Saturday evening allegedly disrupted a play staged by a Pakistani group at an open theatre in Gurgaon’s Laser valley.

The anti-Pakistan demonstration from hardline Hindu outfit is now spreading outside Mumbai as a few Shiv Sena extremists disrupted a play performed by a few Pakistani actors in Gurgaon, located 32 kilometres (20 mi) south-west of New Delhi.

Protesting Sena workers removed the Pakistani flags and vandalised the stage while warning the organisers from going ahead with the event.

“But the organisers of the play soon brought the situation under control and pushed them off the stage and the play was completed”, he added.

Mr Rohilla said the concerned authorities decided against reporting the matter to the police as they did not want to “turn the trouble makers into heroes”. “Even then, since there were actors from Pakistan, security should have been better”. MCG Consultant Vishav Deepak Trikha said, “These men came in and started shouting “Hindustan zindabad, Pakistan murdabad”.

“Baanjh” playwright Afzaal Nabi said, “We came here with a message of peace”. The interruption did bother us but the play went ahead and we were appreciated by the audience. “That is what matters”. Actor Zoya Qazi said “The support made us happy”.

The Sena activists had recently blackened the face of former BJP leader Sudheendra Kulkarni, chairman of the Observer Research Foundation, in Mumbai when he refused to cancel the book launch of former Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri in Mumbai.